Ill see you back here next saturday at 8 00 a. M. Eastern summer cottage starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas on Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stopped short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the state Department Said investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information this followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if israel were to carry out an allout offensive in that city, the increased Military Operation in rafah has put ceasefire for Hostage Talks on pause to us officials told cnn all of this follows a Turning Point in us, israel relations this we
Internationally were creating the evidence what is possible so that others can pick it up and run with it oh, i love that. Ill be sure to tune in next saturday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern for that champions for change, onehour special and thank you so much for joining me today. Amphoteric a Whitfield Smerconish starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stop short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the State Department said, investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information. This followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if isra
Most dangerous higher of donald trump. Donald trump complained about his gag order and the judge and said he would be willing to go to jail. He wants to put me in jail. That could happen one day. I would be very proud to go to jail for our constitution because what he is doing is so unconstitutional. Never been anything like it. This week, Stormy Daniels gave testimony about a 2006 Sexual Encounter with donald trump. Others testified about phone records, checks, invoices , ledgers as prosecutors say they could rest their case by the end of next week as donald trump a 34 counts of falsifying Business Records to hide a reimbursement to Michael Cohen for a 130,000 payment that Michael Cohen made to Daniels Donald trump denies the charges and the alleged affair. A Beachfront Rally for donald trump today new jersey as supporters lined up on the boardwalk on thursday before the speech. We have several correspondence and analyst covering the new angles. We will go first to wildwood, new jerse
Up, ted cruz is On Fox Defending Trump by saying the opposite. Theres no person on planet earth that believes donald trump has been sell celebate all of his life. Thats not news. We have a lot on Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial. What a week it has been. Stormy daniels wrapping up testimony with a contentious and bizarre crossexamination from trumps legal term. Well get expert legal analysis on that and what we can expect in court today because its not over yet. Plus, we have reaction from capitol hill to President Bidens threat to withhold some Weapons Shipments to israel over its possible invasion of rafah. More republicans are krilt criticizing the president and hes facing backlash from democrats. And Kevin Mccarthy is having a hard time coping with the fact that mike johnson did something he could not. Well show you mccarthys dig at his successor. It seems, i dont know, not okay, will legal, good morning, and welcome to morning joe. Its friday, may 10th. With us we have the
Of one of the series of fact witnesses that took the stand before the judge dismissed the jury for the day early just a short time ago. Trumps onetime white house aide Madeleine Westerhout earlier testified about trumps reaction to the allegations callings entire situation, quote, very unpleasant. All this is setting the stage for a huge week starting monday with the last batch of witnesses for the prosecution. We now know according to multiple sources that Michael Cohen will be one of them, the man who once said hed take a bullet for donald trump with the critical task of tying all the pieces together before the defense gets its shot and answers the question could trump himself take the stand . Well dig into that coming up. I want to bring in nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse. Phil rucker, msnbc political analyst and coauthor of multiple books on donald trump, Chuck Rosenberg is a former u. S. Attorney, senior fbi official and msnbc contributor, and with me here in studio, j