A very good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Welcome to alex witt reports. Developing at this hour, some new reaction to the rnc Censuring Congresswoman liz cheney and congressman Adam Kinzinger for their role in the house probe of january 6th. That resolution receiving some major backlash for referring to attack as, quote, legitimate political discourse. Fellow 1 6 Committee Member jaime raskin just telling me what struck him the most about that move. Theyre licensing Political Violence in america. Theyre essentially embracing insurrection and coup as a mode of taking power in the country, and one thing that was particularly alarming to me about it was that it wasnt even clear that donald trump was the one pushing them to do this. Theyve so internalized the Command Structure of the new Republican Party under donald trump as a cult leader that they just do his will without even being told. It comes as former Vp Mike Pence delivered his Harshest Rebuke yet of
morning joe starts right now trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the united states came down yesterday when a new york city grand jury convened by the manhattan district attorney s office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge donald trump. because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they center around that $130,000 payment trump allegedly made to porn star stormy daniels just days before the 2016 election, to keep her silent about an affair she claims the two had a decade earlier according to the star witness in the case, trump s own former lawyer, michael cohen, the trump organization tried to cover up the payment, falsely claiming it was a legal expense. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, march 31st along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too ea early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire the host of politics nation, presid
joining us, eugene scott. have a great weekend, everybody. thank you for joining us way too early. morning joe starts right now. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. that conversation is the main reason a special grand jury in georgia is investigating election interference. yesterday, we got some of their report, and it reveals that the jurors believe that witnesses lied to them. and, somehow, the former president, donald trump, thinks this report exonerates him. we ll explain why that s not even close to being true. plus, the group trump famously told to stand back and stand by now wants to call him as a witness in its trial tied to january 6th. we ll have an update on senator fetterman, who is in walter reid for treatment of clinical depression. he checked himself in. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, february 17thment we have the host of way to early, politico s jonathan lemire.
that the midwest remits. alexi mccammond, thank you very much for joining us early, and thank you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. morning joe startis right now. we need to take this grief and turn it into action. i am a person of faith, i was raisin raised in the church if you are a person of faith and you want to give us your thoughts and prayers, we want them and we need them. our community is hurting, but we need policies in place that will keep this from happening again so that thoughts and prayers do not have to be offered to yet another community ripped apart by the savage violence coming from guns. that s democratic congressman morgan mcgarvy making a plea for action on gun violence after monday s mass shooting in louisville we re getting a look at the deadly confrontation between police and the gun nan we ll have that and the latest in the investigation ahead. trump on fox news making outlandish claims about his arraignment
out the second largest failed bank in u.s. history we re going to have the latest on this developing financial crisis. tell you what, it was a crazy weekend. yesterday, the white house working along with people across the financial industry, doing everything they could to stop a meltdown. yeah. and it looked in the early afternoon like that meltdown was coming they understood that china s markets were going to be opening at 8:00, 9:00 at night, and they had to get things lined up before then so the asian markets didn t collapse, which would cause u.s. markets to collapse this morning it was touch and go, as you know. yeah. because we were on a lot of calls yesterday afternoon. it was touch and go for quite some time. it looks like, for now, they ve stemmed the bleeding but this, for a while, was looking like it could spread much like 2008. absolutely. meanwhile, mike pence finds the courage to speak out on donald trump, but only behind closed doors and off camer