How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
for sexual abuse, ordering him to pay $5 million to writer e. jean carroll. we have legal analysis on the case and more reaction from capitol hill straight ahead. also ahead, a high stakes meeting on the debt ceiling lives up to the low expectations everyone predicted. a look at what could come next as both sides have a small window to hammer out a deal. plus it appears that george santos elis and questionable financial claims are finally catching up to him as he is facing federal charges. and a live report from el paso, texas on how the biden administration is preparing for the end of a pandemic-era immigration restriction. good morning and welcome to morning joe it s wednesday, may 10th. along with joe, willie and me, we have host of way too early, jonathan lemire. former white house director of communications, jen palmerry. cohost of show time s the circus . attorney and columnist for the washington post george conway is with us as well. so it begins. donald tru
doing. they have brought more resources down there. they have the national guard standing by to assist. secretary blinken is doing more they re doing more asylum processing in country in central america, so to try to limit the people who do flow here. i think they want us to know, everything that they are trying to do to stem like a very what is likely to be a difficult problem. and then you saw, you know, what the president said last night when he got a question about it, he said, he said, how s it going to go when title 42 ends, mr. president? and he says, it s going to be difficult, it s going to be messy. we ll have to see in those few days what occurs, but i think they re trying to brace people for yes, we are absent action from congress, you re going to see a lot of chaos at the border. title 42 ends at the end of the day tomorrow. we ll have much more on this story coming up. also ahead, a look at stories making front pages across the country. and an update on a bipartis
of over preparedness by capitol police thank god. which is better than the opposite. they did arrest a couple people on outstanding warrants. somebody else on a weapons charge. but the fencing going back up around the us you capitol and the national guard standing by turns out was not what was needed. man with dog and impromptu exercise class not with standing nobody really showed up. that said, the cause is alive. the republican legislators are busy pursuing their own efforts to overturn or try to discredit the presidential election results. the republican investigation of the presidential election results from wisconsin have now set up their own youtube channel to try to make their investigation of the election results seem more official. as we ve been reporting here over the last couple weeks so far this investigation has been conducting its business using a random g mail address and fake letterhead they made up. now they ve got a youtube