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
he may try to fight extradition. the ball would then go to desantis court the fact that the alleged criminal conduct occurred in new york while donald trump was a resident of new york means that this is in the category of a fugitive extradition that means that desantis has no power to stop the extradition. he can delay it possibly a few months at most, but new york would then go to federal court and get an order of extradition. it s not hard to get in a case like this. now, where desantis has some power is to try to stop a future extradition to georgia that would be a non-fugitive extradition. trump wasn t there at the time the alleged criminal conduct occurred that s why, in this case, even though it looks like the georgia case is stronger than the new york case, the extradition to new york will be easier than any extradition to georgia one more thing one reason trump may indeed surrender rather than go and fight extradition is to t