Could determine whether Fulton County d. A fani willis stays on the case. A final farewell to Alexei Navalny in russia. Loved ones and supporters risk arrest to honor the Opposition Leader as Vladimir Putin further tightens his grip. Hello and thank you for joining us. Im anna cabrera in for Andrea Mitchell. This hour, new developments in two of the four cases facing donald trump whose legal team has taken a strategy of delay. Trump in the courtroom today. The trial schedule is a key part of this hearing. The case has been bogged down by pretrial motions from Donald Trumps attorneys demanding access to sensitive material which jack smith wants to keep sealed for security reasons. Trump is facing 40 criminal charges in the document case, including being part of a scheme to delete Security Video at maralago. Closing arguments are set to begin in Fulton County, georgia, in a battle over whether d. A. Willis will be disqualified from the case there over her relationship with a member of he
just to live. and yet, here we are. seeing the right of our community members diminish. their voices are silenced, they re very identities denied. our nation has made great strides with filling the fundamental promises of freedom and equality for lgbtq plus americans, but lately something has changed. the arc of progress is bending in ways we did not think possible just five years ago. unjust ways. so far this year, more than 520 anti lgbtq bills have been introduced in state legislatures. that is a record. more than 220 of those bills, specifically, targeted transgender and non-binary people. also a record. and an unprecedented 70 anti lgbtq laws have been enacted just this year. in the past, we have put together pride specials celebrating lgbtq+ individuals and their achievements, first in the white house and then on the stage and screen. achievements that deserve to be celebrated. but tonight, as that progress is threatened like never before, we are going to do something d
literally tilting at windmills. it comes as his legal team decides its best defense in his civil rape trial. no defense at all? another deadly mass shooting in america. the latest, a medical center in atlanta, prompting an impassioned plea from georgia senator raphael warnock. also, new reporting on the deep financial ties between supreme court justice clarence thomas and a texas billionaire. keep getting deeper. it keeps getting worse. on capitol hill, there is no off-ramp when it comes to a deal on the debt ceiling. we ll have the latest on the contentious negotiations. meanwhile, the markets mostly flat this morning in response to the latest interest rate hike from the federal reserve. we ll have a full breakdown of what could be the final move from the central bank in the fight to bring down inflation. good morning, everyone, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 4th. we got two out of three birthdays under our belt here. exactly. willie
thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. it was just released that the pentagon deleted all messages from the january 6th. then they hear hillary clinton, well, well, well. we look at the missing january 6th text messages. the questions all over washington this morning with multiple government agencies now involved. has a massive coverup been exposed. and former dhs secretary, jay johnson is standing by. a federal grand jury asked former aide what it means for donald trump. and poland say that democrats continue to make gains as the republicans fly with them wanting to control congress. fallout from kansas and arizona. a lot more than that. we have and overall look of trump s record in the primary races, which is very strong. c pack kicks off today with a controversial guest. we ll get to that. let s start with the number two democrat in the senate now calling on the department of defense so open an internal investigation from key officials. he asked the inspecto
and stolen. that view was wrong then and it is wrong today. that comes as the justice department is ramping up its criminal investigation into the fake electors scheme that was concocted by trump and his allies with federal agents delivering grand jury subpoenas to at least four people yesterday. this is at a scale that we had not seen before from doj. it raises questions about how deep they are in to the fake elector scheme with their investigations. we will have much more on that in just a moment. that is the justice department branch of all of this. the congressional side of the investigation picks up in a few hours with a new hearing focused on the former president s pressure campaign to get the department of justice to intervene in the 2020 election. joining me now ellie honig former federal prosecutor. we can tell a lot by this witness list today. we can, john. let s set the scene. mid-december 2020 now it s about a month and change after the election, we are a few