as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trump s lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycles. the ex-the president snlt prolsing retribution. his al lies aren t the ones plotting to end the independence of the justice department. the most audacious argument, one yesterday. on this program donald trump cannot be tri a criminal court for role in the january 6th insurrectn because heas acquitted by the senate during his second impeachment the new york times reports both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges he s facing are not analogous
sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so
Will. My commitment to the safety of the jewish people, security of israel and its right to exist as an independent jewish state is iron clad even when we disagree. That was part of president joe bidens speech yesterday at a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony at the u. S. Capitol. He condemned a rise in antisemitism and violent protests over the war in gaza. We bring you more of his comments just ahead. Meanwhile, quite the split screen as former President Trump was in court yesterday facetoface with Stormy Daniels. Well go through her testimony and bring you expert legal analysis on the key moments. And also ahead an update from capitol hill where Speaker Mike Johnson continues to talk with the farright lawmakers who are threatening to remove him from leadership. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, may 8th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. We have a busy morning, and we begin with the donald trump criminal trial. Stormy daniels is schedule
what he could to try to take down donald trump from being president again. but, when you re looking at a strategic angle, ron desantis and nikki haley, they re not changing the way they re approaching donald trump. and it reminds me of eight years ago, i m going to go back to ted cruz, i feel like we have done this before, ted cruz didn t launch his air assault on donald trump until the day he dropped out, on may 3rd, the morning of the indiana primary, when he went on a tirade calling donald trump a moral and serial philander. at that point it was too late. with 13 days until iowa, they had, you know, ten months to do it and i guess we have 13 days to see if they change their approach. i have less than a minute left. i want you to tell me about the exchange you had with desantis this morning. reporter: yeah, i asked ron desantis as he was leaving his event here whether he would stand next to donald trump come the republican national
the same time. he says, now, let me nationalize this. when you look at the that s his record. that s right. that s his record that he is running on. yeah. i m selling that to you, how offensive i can be. then, i m also going to show you incompetence by having a launch that didn t launch. and the reason that i don t think that it is going to just be a one-day event is not like desantis is going to change who he is overnight. and his staff, whoever helped him dream up this failure is still running his campaign. they re still the ones that will find a way to fail going forward. if i was getting ready to launch in the same week that tim scott had this big, good launch, i would have these dodos decide how i m going to do this? i mean, these dodos are still in charge. imagine them in the oval office,