soon because time is running out. congress is ready to get on the easter recess. they had gop priorities, too, into the administration, all sidelined because they re rallying again to the defense of donald trump who continues to exert influence over the party thank you, as always great to see you this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts now. after he was arrested, apparently today, donald trump has called for america to de-fund the police, ithe fbi, te department of justice, because the democrats have weaponized law enforcement. all right. who in this panel, who thinks that is a good idea? all right. nobody oh, man well, yeah. donald trump s vengeance messaging doesn t seem to be resonating with his base the former president continues to rage post that s a thing, on social media. despite a warning from the judge not to do so meanwhile, mike pence will have to testify before a federal g
once again. if we don t win this next election, 2024, i truly believe our country is doomed. i think it is doomed. i will prevent world war iii, which we re heading into. which we re heading into. we re heading into world war iii. this will be a war like no other. donald trump cheering for that? dark messaging to supporters in waco, texas. we ll have much more from his rally, including his comments on the manhattan d.a. s hush money investigation, and his praise for vladimir putin. a lot of really creepy moments, as well. meanwhile, the russian president says he is making plans with an ally in the coming months that nato is calling dangerous and irresponsible. we ll get expert analysis on what is happening in eastern europe from former supreme allied commander of nato, admiral james stavridis. also ahead, a live report from mississippi following a deadly tornado outbreak that left a trail of devastation in one of the poorest regions of the country. good mornin
congressman jim jordan s over alleged interference in his case against former president donald trump. the former president, of course, was indicted last week. cnn s kara scannell and cnn s manu raju join us with the latest so things are getting more and more acrimonious here, carol what is the latest that you re hearing? yes it certainly is getting more acrimonious piano. we ve learned that the manhattan district attorney s office has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to block the subpoena from jim jordans committee, the house judiciary committee that they made last week to one of the top prosecutors who worked on this investigation. jim jordan has also reached out to the district attorney s office. brag saying they wanted him to come in and testify. but this is a significant step. forward to combat this effort. bragg s law suit is alleging that this is an unconstitutional effort by congress to try to interfere in the state prosecution. they also say that congress has
did. we got in there. obviously, it was coming right behind us. as we got in there. we heard a big boom. didn t hear anything else for a while, we walked out. then just came out to around ten trees. down in our yard. how frightening, at night as well, we re gonna go to priscilla thompson and silver city, mississippi with the very latest. just a few minutes ago. another story we re following at this hour. crews in pennsylvania are searching for five people after an explosion at a chocolate factory. two people when people are pulled from the rubble overnight. we re gonna live report from pennsylvania later on this hour. we go to more developing news now, the investigation into donald trump are accelerating this weekend. as he deals with several legal setbacks. it comes as new york investigators are looking into a death threat, and white powder having been sent to da alvin bragg. the substance was deemed non hazardous. the letter came hours after trump warned of potential
need to be a higher cost? they re not going to stop. this comes as proxy forces launched ten rockets in northeast syria earlier today. those attacks came from president biden ordered a series of retaliation strikes in response to a suspected iranian drone that killed a u.s. contractor and wounded six americans on thursday. all the breaking news in the past few minutes. our jennifer griffin following the late development from the pentagon. good evening, jen. reporter: tonight iranian forces fired more missiles based in eastern syria, near the oil fields. additional, u.s. forces received entries. we learned some may be serious and the pentagon is assessing its response. the u.s. does not seek conflict with iran but is prepared to respond forcefully to respect u.s. personnel. reporter: the iranian drone carried out an attack on a maintenance facility at a u.s. base shared with the kurdish defense forces in northeast syria, midday on thursday. a u.s. contractor was kill