marine veteran will face trial for the chokehold death of jordan neely on a new york city subway train. ashley strohmier is live in the newsroom with the breaking information. ashley? reporter: hi, there. a man who put a new york subway ride in a fatal chokehold will be returning to court. daniel penny will be arraigned following an indictment by a grand jury that he has been out on bond after being initially charged by manhattan prosecutors for manslaughter. in the second degree after the death of jordan neely on may 1st. the grand jury indictment is a procedural step that will allow the criminal case to move forward. penny s attorney maintains the defense that his client believed neely was a threat to himself and passengers. the standard in new york state is not you don t have to wait until someone physically attacks. you don t have to wait until somebody is lying on the ground or worse. the standard is whether a reasonable person in my client s position would have fe
i understand it. in fact, trump made the republican party the party of working americans in a way that probably hasn t been true for almost 100 years. yeah, because in 100 years, there hasn t been a politician who said, i m going to make this for third graders to understand what i m talking about. talking on that level? that was newt gingrich encouraging ron desantis to get on the level of third graders. i m not joking. you know, kind of like donald trump does. wonder what he means. this is a tough hurricane. one of the wettest we ve ever seen from the standpoint of water. rarely have we had an experience like it, and it certainly is not good. oh, my god. one of the wettest we ve had. good morning. welcome to morning joe. hope you ve had a good week. it is friday. friday, may 26th. let s bring in with us the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. the host of inside with jen psaki, jen psaki. she s a former white house press
first television interview at 8:00 p.m. eastern. getting things started by putting out this teaser video. is it worth the fight, do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. former trump former president trump wasting no time going after desantis saying the florida governor cannot win and needs a personality transplant. brand-new polls show trump gaining support and doubling his lead over desantis since march, but desantis appears ready for a fight. expected to spend up to $200 million to try and defeat trump. and the liberal mines are out for the former governor, the ultra maga florida isn t safe for people of color, lgbtq+ people, or even multibillion-dollar corporations. and the media is getting in on bashing desantis. i don t want to dislike him, i can t help it. why do you dislike people of color? what s wrong with american history? what s wrong with those folks? you see his lack of political skills and political
multiple crimes, neither dropped by the republican party. have the gop no shame? plus, the texas father who lost a son in the uvalde massacre kicked out of the state capital this week for demanding some action on gun reform. he will join me to share his story and his message. and elon musk, lisa styled free speech absolutist caves to an authoritarian government demand that he censor his tweets. actions speak louder than words, elon. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. on wednesday, the house was debating an unemployment benefit fraud bill, legislation to help incentivize states to recover funds stolen during the coronavirus pandemic. the stunning case of cosmic irony, that bill being debated on the same daisy that one of its co-sponsors found him self indicted for that very same crime. yes, that s right. justice finally caught up with now infamous serial liar and fabricator george santos. on wednesday, federal prosecutors in new york announced a 13 count indictment against the rep
fox has been slapped with another defamation lawsuit. we have the details of their latest legal debacle. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. this week, after four months of endless investigations, weeks upon weeks of conspiracy adult fox cameos and countless promises of seismic revelations of a soprano-esque biden family criminal enterprise, james coburn and his republican allies on the house oversight committees held a press conference to announce, wait for it, drumroll please. nothing, nothing, zilch, no evidence connecting president biden to any wrongdoing whatsoever. all of that work and innuendo to produce a 65-page memo showing no specific allegations of a crime committed by biden or any of his relatives. in other words, it was a flop and that is good news for two reasons one, we obviously don t want the then vice president to be tangled in criminal activity. and to, it makes this years-long smear campaign against joe biden harder to continue. and that was the whole