Candidacy for 2028. You re like, no, stop. Stop, please. Latenight laughs to start us off. Vice president harris is calling out donald trump after his campaign refused to commit to the upcoming presidential debate. Meanwhile, her campaign also continues to highlight jd vance s comments about childless politicians. We ll show you how they trolled trump s running mate. And we ll bring you the latest on the hush money verdict appeal from trump s legal team. Lisa rubin will join us with expert legal analysis. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, july 26th. I m jonathan lemire. Thanks for being with us. With us, we have a great, great group. Pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. Managing editor at the bulwark, sam stein. And former white house director of communications to president obama, jennifer palmieri. And the weekend is starting early, we have former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele,
welcome to prime time weekend, i am nicolle wallace, n let s get right to the week s top story is point with less than two weeks to go before he makes history by becoming the first ex-president of the united states to ever stand trial on criminal charges, donald trump is turning to tactic straight out of the mobsters playbook. the ex-president going after the daughter of the new york judge who is overseeing the criminal house money case. in typical trump fashion, his tactics have been foaming at the mouth, rage, and bluster, and conspiracy theories with a dash of information misinformation in there. the judges daughter sharing a photo of donald trump behind bars on social media. court officials quickly not to die down, but trump hasn t stopped going after the judges daughter. he has posted about her at d least four times since tuesday morning. trump s attacks came one day after judge merchan posted a gag order on donald trump prohibiting him from lashing out against witness
minutes before the massive cargo ship crashed into baltimore s francis scott key bridge. crews found two victims in a pickup truck deep under the waters. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. attorneys for donald trump and one of his co-defendants were back in fulton county trying to get the georgia charges dismissed. after losing their bid to have fulton county prosecutor fani willis disqualified, his legal team is trying to have the charges tossed out, arguing his alleged attempts to stay in power are protected by the first amendment as protected political speech. the judge sounded skeptical. some crimes can be achieved through speech, terroristic threats, solicitation. why is that not what s happening here? what we have here, we have election speech. one must determine immediately whether that constitutes core political speech, and i suggest it does. there s nothing alleged factually against president trump that is not political speech. he is no
journalist evan gershkovich and his freedom after one year in russian custody. the wall street journal has a powerful front page. we will go to baltimore to break down the major operation to reopen a major economic waterway in the coming months. hello and welcome. i m ryan nobles in for andrea mitchell in washington. the battle for the white house heats up on the heels of president biden and former president trump s split-screen visits to new york yesterday. more than $26 million was raised by the biden campaign at last night s star-studded event and radio city music hall. former presidents obama and clinton joined president biden in his trademark aviators. it wasn t all lighthearted, especially when the moderator ask the president about the election. how would you describe what s at stake in this election? i think our democracy is at stake. we are at a real inflection point in history. this guy denies there s global warming. this guy wants to get rid of not only
ex-president for charges, and a judge saying that words do indeed have consequences. donald trump is now under a gag order in the criminal case brought by the manhattan d.a. alleging a cover-up. the young barring trump from attacking or directing others to attack potential witnesses, jurors, prosecutors and court staff. and the ex-president is allowed to make statements about district attorney alvin bragg. if his ruling, the judge said that the need to protect the integrity of the process from the defendant with one of the biggest platforms in the world. as trial neared it pushed him to issue the cord. quote, given the eve of trial is upon us, it is without question that the imminency of the risk of harm is paramount. the rules was issued hours after trump made two statements that would arguably have violated the gag order. times records in a rambling and angry post on his social media site on tuesday, he made a reference to michael cohen, claiming without explanation that