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
i loved jon meacham talking about the men s grill enablers. nice line. people who try to have it both ways. you and i, you and me, we ve seen this all time people talk about, oh, i can t stand this guy hate this. oh, he s the worst he s horrible for the. then the enablers will go on tv look at glenn youngkin he is a perfect example. all these other people go on, and then they ll say, oh, the weaponization of the rule of law. it s nonsense. also irresponsible. we don t know what is inside the indictment there is a baseless accusation of any collusion or the rule of law being abused but that s a little fact check to what the former vice president said about michael cohen. cohen was convicted of tax evasion and campaign finance violations tied to the payments