morning joe. it is wednesday, march 29th. we have a lot to get to this hour, including a major development in the investigation into former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. a federal judge has ordered mike pence to give testimony. meanwhile former trump ally chris christie appears to be willing to play the anti-trump role if he gets into the 2024 race. we ll have more on that new reporting. and we re still on so called indictment watch since the president announced, the former president, that he was going to be arrested. we ll have the latest on the manhattan grand jury s investigation into the hush money payments to a porn star. plus, an update on the continuing protests in israel, and what president biden is saying about meeting with the country s leader, along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, just ran over. how does he do that? and member of
the argument that mike pence was making was the best one legally. so i think what we re really looking for is when could we see mike pence in front of a grand jury and sarah cnn s learning that former trump national security officials from the department of homeland security , chad wolf and ken cuccinelli have testified to a federal grand jury about trump s efforts and desire to seize voting machines. after the 2020 election. they said that they told the president and his team that he had no authority to do so. this really speaks to how special counsel jack smith is zeroing in. on the various ways . trump tried to overturn his election loss. that s right. i mean, this is excellent reporting from my colleagues at cohen sort of looking at how the special counsel is digging into a bunch of these schemes the trump team considered to try to overturn the 2020 election. of course, we know that one of these sort of crazy ideas under consideration was seizing the voting machines, and
of falsifying business records, typically just a misdemeanor, and district attorney s alvin bragg s strategy for elevating the charges is on shaky legal ground. here s the new york post, calling the case trumped up. the paper writes, is that it? bragg s historic cases versus don falls flat. meanwhile the da defending his controversial decision to bring a case against a former u.s. president. your predecessor took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. federal prosecutors took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. do you believe you have new evidence that led you to decide to charge this, or why now? we ve had additional evidence. this is the business capital of the world. we regularly do cases involving false business statements. the bedrock, in fact the basis for business integrity at a well-functioning business marketplace is true and accurate record-keeping. that s the charge that s brought here. falsifying new york state busine
revealed by local officials just a little while ago. that s going to see it as diane gallagher. she s watching all of this unfold for us. diane police say this was a targeted attack by the shooter, and they shared some of the clues she left behind. that s right, wolf. they say this was a targeted attack by 28 year old audrey elizabeth hale, who is a resident of the national area and a former student of the covenant school there at covenant presbyterian church. now i want to immediately talk about those six victims because police say that audrey hale shot and killed six people in that church this morning. they got the call around 10 13 am about the shooting. this is a very small school around 200 students that serves preschool. through sixth grade. the three of the victims are children were told to nine year olds and an eight year old who was about to turn nine. evelyn decals halle scruggs, william kenny and then three staff members. cynthia peak age 61, a substitute teacher,
we re talking through all the memos. i don t want to break all expectations i want you to follow it, to be on the floor, i want the anticipation i want you to see, i want you to see as the clock goes up i want you to write stories like teetering, whether i can win or not and the whole world hangs in the balance. or that s what you want kevin is still playing a dangerous game, joking about a debt default while refusing to specify what it is he wants to cut. his chaos caucus, meanwhile, grows more emboldened to make a spectacle out of, well, everything plus, the brand-new super pac that wants to help america move past the gutter politics of marjorie greenes and lauren boebert s and matt gaetzs. and ron desantis has put all his chips on fighting woke, going mia from its state as it endures an actual crisis, but surprise, he s getting the pudding squeezed out of him by donald trump when it comes to florida endorsements but we begin tonight with the kevin mccarthy caucus.