Good morning, it is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. We are tracking an incredibly busy day on capitol hill. Just moments from now a Veteran Boeing Engineer will testify before a Senate Subcommittee that the 787 dreamliner could break apart in midair due to safety flaws. The president of Colombia University is defending her handling of antisemitic incidents on campus and accusations she failed to protect jewish students after october 7th. And in two hours, the senate will open the Impeachment Trial of Homeland Security secretary alejandro mayorkas, the first impeachment of a Cabinet Member in almost 150 years. But, we begin this morning with the very latest from former president Donald Trumps hush money trial, that is now taking shape after hundreds of new yorkers were summoned to court this week. Seven have now been sworn in to serve as jurors in the very first criminal trial facing the former president , centered around hush money payments made to stormy d
weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. it is interesting that nikki haley, again, is bad lane along with ron desantis, chris christie for first place, for second place right now. there may be a pathway for her to win new hampshire. there may be new hampshire s interest in this year. you don t have a democratic race. so you have a lot of independents that aren t going to be splitting between republican and democratic voting, but she has right now, and, again i, know she s a civet boosted to the shull polls, i ve also filed enough campaigns. when people start talking about somebody, that s usually a leading indicator. you see polls go up, you but you look at the debate, the men screaming. you look at ron desantis and gavin newsom shouting at each other with sean hannity shouting in the middle. serious. there s a lot of men out there shouting. a lot of buffoon airy, a lot of really loud voices, and so, if politics is about contrast, then what a contrast and n
good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 8th. glad it s friday, but we do have a lot to get to this morning, willie. president biden is putting more pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to allow additional aid into gaza. we ll have more details on the first conversation between the two leaders in 11 days. a lot of questions. meanwhile, the president s son is facing several new tax charges. we ll break down the allegations against hunter biden. plus, a recap of donald trump s day in court for his civil tax fraud trial. he was there as the former president is now expected to be the last person to take the stand. that should happen next week. also ahead, a rare ruling in a post roe world. a judge in texas granted an emergency request for an abortion, but the state s attorney general is threatening to prosecute any doctor who treats the woman. we ll talk about that. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bur
very much prima donna trump sweeping the race in wisconsin limits from now he s going to be rallying in a key state as president joe biden announces some sweeping new protections for migrant sponsors and u.s. citizens no matter the state from were living in now. it is all pointing migration front and center in the border front and center welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto, the story right now is wisconsin, this is always a state that is as close as it gets between the major candidates, it has been in the last few presidential elections, polls are looking equally tight right now. let s go to bryan eneas in racing with more. there are several thousand trump supporters that are here in wisconsin just ahead of rally were expected to start at any moment here. i give you a sense of what it looks like you re on the coast of beautiful latent lake michigan. these folks are expected to hear former president trump hammer president biden on immigration and inflation, two issues th
things will get worse than they are right now. bottom line, it s going to get worse. we have the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. we have already lost 24 of our citizens. . we re heading towards an epidemic in the united states. the question is what the scope is going to be. tom hanks and his wife rita wilson, have both tested positive for coronavirus. . to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days. all right. exactly one year ago today when the country began to feel the full effects of the coronavirus. march 11th, 2020 was the day the world health organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. and in the u.s., shutdowns kicked in, cities began limiting gatherings. schools began to close. and major sports leagues started to halt play. everything seemed to stop. can you believe it s been a year, joe? i know. willie, it seems so much longer than a y