Susan good evening, from the university of utah in salt lake city, welcome to the first and only Vice President ial debate of 2020, sponsored by the nonpartisan commission on president ial debates. Im susan page of usa today. It is my honor to moderate this debate, an important part of our democracy. In Kingsbury Hall tonight, we have a small and socially distanced audience, we have taken extra precautions during this pandemic. Among other things, everyone in the audience is required to wear a face mask, and the candidates will be seated 12 feet apart. The audience is enthusiastic about their candidates, but they have agreed to express that enthusiasm only twice, at the end of the bait, and now, when i introduced the candidates. Please welcome california senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence. [applause] susan senator harris and Vice President pence, thank you for being here. We are meeting as President Trump and the first lady continue to undergo treatment in washington a
good morning. happy new year. welcome to a special new year s day edition of morning joe. we re on tape this morning with some of our top, recent conversations. we begin with a discussion about donald trump s increasing use of authoritarian language in his speeches and social media posts. in recent months, trump has repeated fascist rhetoric, including saying immigrants are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country, and referring to his political enemies as vermin. we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the threat from outside forces is sinister, dangerous, and grave, more than the threat from within. donald trump echoing the words of 20th century authoritarians at a rally earlier this month. joining us now, national affairs analyst john heilemann. special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast, molly jong-fast. and co
search of donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. it s the first time in american history the bureau has searched the home of a former president. sources say agents removed boxes of items and trump s attorney confirmed papers were taken. cnn has learned the warrant is tied to an investigation about how presidential documents were handled, including ones that were deemed classified. the former president, while at trump tower in new york, confirmed the fbi was in his home and he says broke into his safe. top republicans are rallying behind the former president after the search, which likely was approved by leaders of the justice department, including trump appointed director of the fbi christopher wray. joining us now, cnn s gabby orr, and katelyn polantz, unprecedented, as we said, what do we know about the search. this was a search that began in the morning yesterday, and as far as we know lasted quite some time. law enforcement went in to mar-a-lago. they were focused on trump s
Morning joe starts right now. And good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is tuesday april 2nd. We have a lot to get to this morning, including the expanded gag order in Donald Trumps jonathan, just have a seat may as well put my lipstick on. Someone is passing notes. Just getting set from the show. I had to mov from over here to over there. I had to put stuff down. Right behind willie. Sorry. Have a seat. Are you ready for us to begin the class . Yes, lets do it. I know its your first day. Queue it up her name is mika. Welcome everyone to morning joe. Thats a beautiful shot. If we still even have you. Thank you for joining us. I think its tuesday, everybody is in their seats and well get to all thats going on this morning. The expanded gag order in Donald Trumps Hush Money Case comes as the former president came up with the cash needed to appeal for his Civil Fraud Judgment. Well talk about that. On wall street, truth social looks more like a meme stock with shares lower im not sure
Between him and the man behind the curtain. The move today comes after weeks of that press and sinking poll numbers. While there are loyalists there is no love lost tween the manager and some advisors including Michael Caputo who tweeted along with this picture after the news broke. Kaputo. Now he resigned after the tweet. Bringing in a professional like all helped us grow the campaign and we need 10 more of these. The Campaign Needs to grow to a successful. Theything that paul did for campaign was one less thing i had to do and i am thankful for that. Colleague will be on the show reporting this afternoon that paul plans to make Additional Campaign hires in the next coming days. Lets get to this key first question. After months of tension having to people trying to run the campaign, bickering over over how decisions trump operates, Donald Trumps children and smothered visors convinced him this had to be done now. It had to be done for the symbolism to reassure people they recognize th