weekend taking the stage in iowa to the lyrics of a country song about the potential of going to prison. we ll go through the latest developments in the classified documents case, as one of trump s employees is supposed to appear in federal court later today. also ahead, we re hearing from the georgia prosecutor who is likely to bring charges against the former president there for interference in the 2020 election. plus, we ve got brand-new reporting on the massive amount of money that trump s political group is spending on his legal costs. and new polling out this morning has more bad news for the desantis campaign, with the florida governor failing to build substantial support from republican voters. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, july 31st. i m jonathan lemire in for joe, mika and willie. with us, we have member of the new york times editorial board,
that was donald trump demanding loyalty from the republican party as his legal troubles continue to mount. we ll have an update on the latest charges for the former president. also ahead, we re hearing from the georgia prosecutor who is likely to bring charges against trump for election interference. plus, new reporting on the massive amount of money trump s political group is spending on his legal costs. all right. good morning. good monday morning. welcome to way too early on this monday, july 31st. last day of july, amazing. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. now, we begin this week with the latest on those charges against former president donald trump in the classified documents case. today a newly introduced third defendant, the property manager at the former president s florida hope is scheduled to be
or it could be both. that was donald trump over the weekend taking the stage in iowa to the lyrics of a country song about the potential of going to prison. we ll go through the latest developments in the classified documents case as one of trump s employees is supposed to appear in federal court later today. also ahead, we re hearing from the georgia prosecutor who is likely to bring charges against the former president there for interference in the 2020 election. plus, we have brand-new reporting on the massive amount of money that trump s political group is spending on his legal costs. and new polling out this morning has more bad news for the desantis campaign with the florida governor failing to build substantial support from republican voters. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, july 31st. i m jonathan lemire in for joe,
xi is an extraordinary one. he s for china. i m for the u.s. other than that, we love each other. putin, very smart. we wrote me beautiful letters, and they re great letters. we fell in love. i know these leaders of these countries. they re very street smart. they re very smart people. they know what they re doing. they re at the top of their game. we have somebody that s not at the top of his game. never was at the top of a game. never was. we have a guy who is a dumb son of a [ bleep ]. there you have it. a reminder of the times when donald trump praised authoritarian leaders in contrast to the last clip, which was saturday night when he use and expletive to describe the united states president, joe biden. welcome back to morning joe. it is monday, july 31st. i m jonathan lemire. joe, mika and willie are off today. mara gay and sam stein are still with us. and let s bring into the conversation professor at princeton university, our friend
i think we will see one soon. the district attorney has sort of put her security partners on high alert, she s put her core partners on high alert. the window for when we think she will make announcements would open on monday, july 31st. i would be surprised if we see something from them next week. i think they re still getting organized according to my sources. i do think unless something goes wrong with this case we will see an announcement from fani willis in fulton county probably in early august about whether donald trump or any of his allies or multiple people could face charges in this investigation. she has been investigating this and you have been following every single bit of news for two and a half years. there s been a lot of talk about how she s prosecuted other famous people in georgia on rico charges. why has this taken so long to come together, do you think? i think the fact that she s looking at a potential racketeering and conspiracy case is part of it and just