Justices seem divided as they debated trumps Immunity Claim for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Youll hear their remarks with one justice raising concerns that shielding president s from prosecution could turn the oval office into a seat of criminality. Plus, this morning, former National Enquirer publisher david pecker is set to return to the stand in the hush money case with Defense Attorneys continuing their crossexamination. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, april 26th. With us, former white house Director Of Communications for president obama, jennifer palmieri. Cohost of the podcast how to win 2024. Rogers chair and the american presidency at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham. And our legal analyst, former litigaor and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin. Former u. S. Attorney and msnbc contributor barbara mcquade. Good morning to you all. Lets dive right in with yesterdays historic day at the Supreme Court where the justices he
media. that s a huge difference because everybody can tune in, see what s going on, you don t know whether it is authentic or not what you re reading, people are fiddling with it constantly, we re much more divided country now than then. back then, i ll ask you, three branches of government worked well together by summer of 74, the most damning tape against nixon, june 23rd tape where he was asking the cia basically to interfere with the fbi investigation, clear case, that was delivered to the congress and country. right now, seems like the courts are not playing that role. everything is slowed down to the point we re not getting the evidence. and we re not getting the evidence. the other thing is that everybody is operating on separate islands. there s no cooperation across agencies and across departments of government. the other very important part of it, the republican party at that time did not speak out in a way they re speaking out now. most of them stayed quietly in
itself was not a sophisticated system, and i just wish we d have had a better system. i frankly wish we hadn t had a system at all. then i wouldn t have to answer this question. this isn t a reporter s question. it s a commentator s question. suppose we never got those tape. would nixon have been forced from office? i m not sure. i don t i really don t know. you have to remember, however, that before we got to that moment, people, his principal advisers, johner licks erhlicks going to president. bob halderman was going to prison. his former law partner was going to prison. the president himself might have been able to avoid it. by the way, that speech that he was making there, it was to newspaper editor, and he was trying to defend the idea that he not paid a full compliment of
american history, the house is drawing up articles much impeachment against the president of the united states of america. house democrats note this no president has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of the house of representatives to investigate high crimes and misdemeanors. joins me are my dear friend steve kornacki, and the host of hardball, chris ma matthews. give us a history lesson. the party was split on nixon. there was a dramatic event, the release of the june 23rd tape to show that you can hear him obstructing by covering up.
i m hoping the intel report will be basically the opening argument for a trial. that it will, in a clear and concise way, summarize what led up to the phone call because it s not the phone call by itself, although the phone call presents clear evidence, much like the smoking gun tape against richard nixon. the shocking thing about this is donald trump didn t learn the lesson of watergate, which is if the president hadn t allowed the june 23rd tape to be released, he might still have survived. he might not have been impeached or had the vote in the committee anyway for impeachment and the clear evidence he would have not only been impeached by the full house but would have been convicted by the senate. nixon released that tape and in the same way, donald trump released the memo of his conversation, which is great