Hunter biden about to appear in Federal Court in delaware. We expect he will plead not guilty on that felony gun charge. At the same time, here in new york former President Donald Trump about to head downtown. It is day two of his civil fraud trial. Also in new york, the crypto king, Sam Bankmanfried, appears for day one of his fraud trial. Well watch it unfold together coming up. Breaking news from overnight. Sitting u. S. Congressman carjacked at gun point in the Nations Capital. Good morning. Im bill hemmer. Dana has the day off today. Welcome to a big show to our colleague and friend, gillian. Gillian im good. Thank you for having me back for day two. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The victim identified as henry cuellar. As he was parking his car tonight three armed assailants approached and stole his vehicle. He wasnt harmed and working with local Law Enforcement. Thank you to metro pd and Capitol Police for recovering the congressmans vehicle. Lets go live to Gr
democrats panic is muzzled if poll numbers stay. there are big events, including donald trump s sentencing coming up shortly. john heilemann, we ll talk again in a little bit on morning joe. thanks for getting up way too early on this friday morning from atlanta. morning joe starts right now. i ll fix the taxes. we have a thousand trillionaires in america, i mean billionaires. what s happening? they, in fact, pay 8.2% taxes. if they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers, they ve raised $500 million billion dollars, i should say, in a ten-year period. wipe out the debt. we can help make sure all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i ve been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do look, if we finally beat medicare after you rallied your supporters that da
it pains me to say this, but this is his party, this is his nomination. i think he is going to win by a lot, trump will lie about it however he winds, 20, 30, 40 points. which is interesting to me is how, and what desantis and haley do, depending on who comes in second. because that is really the only interesting aspect of tomorrow. so what do they do, molly, to pick up on joe s point, assuming nikki haley finishes second, or desantis finishes third? what do they actually do, why doesn t even matter? why do we even talk about the other two? yeah i mean, this is a weird, we are continually seeing republicans wishing trump would just go away. since 2016, since he lost in 2020, the idea is he will just go away if we close our eyes tight enough. and this is another case of that, right. i mean nikki haley, she could win every caucus, she could win
can, obviously the headline is among shot, the booking, the surrendering, but what is next? what are the legal maneuvers next? where the dates to look for, and what exactly is this former president facing, especially with all of the other different trials and indictments refuse dealing with, one fourth and county, there are so many codefendants, so many different mugshots, so many different headlines, but as you point out, what is the main what is the main issue here facing this former president? what are the main issue is, to joe s point, the avalanche of criminal charges, the dizzying array of proceedings. it is hard for people to get their arms around this. most of us have never been defendants in a single white collar criminal indictment, let alone for. these kinds of cases, they take a lot of mental energy to devote to defending oneself.
joe s point, the avalanche of criminal charges, the dizzying array of proceedings. it s hard for people to get their arms around this. most of us have never been defendants in a single white collar criminal indictment, let alone four. these cases, they take a lot of mental energy to devote to defending oneself, even if you re not devoting substantial time to your own defense. you have to be in courtrooms. even though the co-defendant, cheseboro, asked for a speedy trial, and the d.a., fani willis, said she s ready to go to trial in october, donald trump isn t going to do that. nobody i talked to thinks this is going to be the first or even the second case to go to trial among the four. but on monday, guys, in washington, d.c., there s going to be a hearing before judge tanya chutkan. she is going to set a trial date in the other election interference case brought by jack smith, and that s the one most people i talk to think may