Thank you, as always. Thanks to all of you for getting up Way Too Early on this tuesday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Trumps lawyers, theyve been working to paint Michael Cohen as a sleazy liar who is hellbent on revenge, conveniently leaving out the fact trump used him as his own personal porno venmo. After calling 20 minutes over the past month, the prosecution rested their case. When he heard, trump was like, ive been resting the whole case. [ applause ] time to rest. Time to rest. Michael cohen admitted on the stand today he stole money from the Trump Organization. Only in a donald trump trial would the star witness be the one who ends up going to jail. How lucky is donald trump . Donald trump is like a corruption mr. Magoo. Hes just stumbling around, quid pro quoing, metal beams falling all around him, getting out unscathed. Well have more from Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial, including the Dramatic Exchange in court with a trump ally that led to the judge clearing the cou
This morning. Less than two weeks after hamas Terror Attacks sent israel plunging into a new weir, President Joe Biden is now in that country to show solidarity with our middle eastern ally. The president touched down in tel aviv about an hour ago when he was greeted on the tarmac by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two men as you see shared an embrace. The two are set to hold talks throughout the day as tensions in the war start to spill outside israel and gaza. Last night propalestinian protesters clashed with police in parts of the west bank, lebanon, turkey, and jordan all in response to a deadly blast at a hospital in gaza. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says more than 200 people were killed there, but israeli and gaza officials are both blaming the other side for the deadly violence. That blast has already forced changes to the president s schedule. Just as biden was departing for israel yesterday the king of jordan canceled a planned summit between himself, biden, the Pal
People over the years. Im not the only one. And wasnt very good in a lot of ways in terms of his representation. And also the things he got in trouble for were things that had nothing to do with me. He got in trouble, he went to jail. This had nothing to do with me. When are they going to look at all the lies in the last trial. He got caught lying to them in the last trial. He got caught lying, pure lying. And when are they going to look at that . Donald trump may have violated the gag order in his Hush Money Trial by ranting about Michael Cohen yesterday who is expected to testify at some point. Well get expert legal analysis on that and yesterdays Opening Statements. Plus, well go through the newly unsealed transcripts in the classified documents case, which show a former white house staffer tried to warn the former president about the legal issues he could face. And well have the latest from capitol hill on foreign aid funding passed by the house as well as threats to Mike Johnsons
Democrats. You think of it as a purely democrat area. Its a very unfair situation. Donald trump may have violated the gag order in his Hush Money Trial yet again yesterday during a radio interview, complaining about the jury. Well get expert legal analysis on that. And yesterdays Opening Statements and first witness. Plus, well go through the newly unsealed transcripts in the classified Documents Case which shows a former white house staffer tried to warn trump about the legal issues he could face. You know, if he stole classified documents. And its another day where trump is in court and President Biden is on the Campaign Trail. This time in trumps home state. Well preview the president s speech in tampa, florida. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, april 23rd. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. And Deputy Managing Editor for politics at politico, sam stein. Doing a little Way Too Early duty this morning. Of co
president biden with a little self-deprecation about his age. somebody feeling good after that win. tuesday will do that for you. that was during a speech to united autoworkers yesterday. the president seeming to preview his 2020 campaign, including attacks on donald trump. speaking of the former president, he seems to be confirming reports he plans to get revenge on his critics if he wins a second term as if anyone had any doubt he would. we ll play those comments for you. meanwhile, democrats are sure to lose a key seat in the senate next year with joe manchin of west virginia announcing he will not run for re-election. also ahead this morning, we ll go through the major development out of the middle east. israel agreeing to daily humanitarian pauses in gaza to get some of that food and that aid in. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, november 10th. with us today, we ve got the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. congressional investigations re