which reportedly captured donald trump telling michigan officials not to certify the 2020 election results. we re going to dig into that explosive, new reporting. plus, as trump continues to double down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric, a recent poll shows republican voters say that his racist language makes them more likely to vote for him. also ahead, america s mayor is broke. rudy giuliani filed for bankruptcy just days after being ordered to pay $146 million in his defamation case. and regrets, he s had a few. what republican presidential candidate ron desantis is saying is the one thing he wishes he could change about the gop primary. here s a hint, it s not anything that he did. good morning. welcome to morning joe. i m jonathan lemire, along with the bbc s katty kay, in for joe, mika, and willie. with us, we have former white house director of communications to president obama, our friend, jennifer palmieri. also the co-host of the podcast, how to win 2024. y
ahead of his scheduled court appearance on tuesday. trump s legal team is preparing for the first ever arrangement of a former president, the u. s and russia s top officials, speaking by phone about two detained americans. but russia has to say about the fate of the arrested wall street journal reporter and a violent explosion rips through a saint petersburg cafe, leaving a popular pro war russian blogger dead. what? we re learning ahead in a live report. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with leila harrack. we begin here in the united states and the coming hours. former u. s. president donald trump will head to new york for a moment we ve never seen before. sources tell cnn. he is expected to appear in court tuesday afternoon. his legal team says trump will voluntarily surrender but plans to file substantial legal challenges. we will take the indictment. we will dissect it. um the team will look at every every, um, potential issue that we will be able to challenge him. w
good morning. s it s 10:00 a.m. eastern. 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m ryan nobles. after years of broken promises and legal battles, some of former president trump s tax returns are now public. a short time ago, the house ways and means committee release trump s tax returns from 2013 through 2020 and returns from some of his businesses. it comes more than six years after the former president made this pledge to release the returns. i ll release them when the audit is completed. i have had audits for 15 or 16 years. under audit, when it s complete, i ll release them. he never did release them. the committee obtained the returns in november after a long legal bat thal went all the way to the u.s. supreme court. the panel hoped to res lease the documents last week, but it delayed the disclosure so they could redact personal information. the former president responding to the release with a statement saying in part, the democrats should have never done it, the supreme court shoul
thousands of people cut off from the mainland 6789 the only way to get there, air, helicopter or boat. you see semitrucks bringing supplies, we re moving as fast as we can, we are here to support as long as needed. carley: alexandria hoff joins us live from fort myers beach. what an experience. the pictures look like a bomb went off. what did you learn? alex: how complicated it has been to get to people in need, those in barrier islands that have been completely cut off. recovery operation or the operation to get to some form of state of recovery, 24 hours ongoing and quite impressive. latest numbers, 430,000 floridians still without power, down from 2.6 million and hardest hit places, though, they could be in the dark for weeks and months, some are anticipating. as number of those without power comes down, ian s death toll is rising. report of 78 deaths, 71 in florida, even survival plagued by trauma. a resident put it, it is the most horrible thing in the world really
of george floyd. moments ago, the court went into a short five-minute recess. this morning, lawyers there going through the tedious work of picking jurors. we will take you live to minneapolis in just a few moments. first, though, that breaking news on the hill, just moments ago, the house finally receiving the american rescue act from the senate, dialing up the urgency to vote on it, unemployment benefits set to end for many americans just days from now. we re going to ask a very simple questions this hour, what s in the bill for you? also this hour, president biden visiting a small business and spotlighting the pandemic s impact on our economy. a key part of this bill is the nearly $170 billion to reopen our schools. a study from one nonprofit system that for 3 million students march 2020 a full year ago might have been the last time they experienced any formal education. coming up, i ll talk to a former education secretary under president obama about our kids who is gettin