would like to live a long life, longevity has its place, but i m not concerned about that now. i just want to do god s will. and he s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and i ve looked over, and i ve seen the promised land. i may not get there with you but i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. a haunting speech from reverend martin luther king jr. delivered the night before he was assassinated in memphis. we ll be honoring dr. king this morning and exploring his legacy throughout the morning on morning joe. also ahead this hour, we ll have the latest developments on the classified documents found at president biden s home, and the gop s false equivalency when it comes to this discovery. hundreds of files of donald trump tried to stash away at mar-a-lago, to equate is a little tough. congress is on the clock to raise the country s debt limit. it comes after a dire warning from treasury secretary janet yellen. plus, we ll get a live
Katie fang in for ari melber. Another big day for Donald Trumps criminal collection trial, starting out with both sides butting heads. The prosecution asking the court for donald trump to be held in contempt of court, and Donald Trumps lawyers spinning those attacks as political. The judge frustrated, admonishing trumps attorney saying youre losing all credibility with this court, the judge adding, youve presented nothing. Well, well have more on that later in the show. But first, the prosecutions first witness back on the stand, former National Enquirer publisher david pecker, returning to detail to the jury his involvement in the multiple catch and kill plots to bury negative stories about donald trump. Pecker detailing his decades long relationship with trump, and his frequent communications with Michael Cohen. Testifying that in that now infamous 2015 meeting, pecker agreed to publish only positive stories about trump, promising to be trumps eyes and ears. Pecker going on to say ho
deuteronomy, remember the days of old, remember the years of many generations, ask thy fathers, they will tell thee, and they will show you. remembrance, not just as a passive act. today is not about, dr. king is not about contemplating a statue and then going back to what we re doing anyway. it s remembrance in a biblical sense. it s an action to remind us why we do what we do and what it should be. and reverend al sharpton, you remember and yet you move forward and push forward the legacy. you re doing it today. later on this morning with the president of the united states, civil rights leaders. i m curious your thoughts as we play them out in top speech from memphis where we were, where we
is an anachronism that this country can no longer afford to carry and secondly, that we use this opportunity to be able to set the tone and to create the framework for establishing once and for all who we want to be and what we want to stand for. and that requires in my view notjust form but substance. and to that extent, therefore, we are not only changing the head of state, we hope to be able to start a discussion for a new constitution but a new constitution that looks at the different roles and responsibilities and indeed rights of citizens but before you even get there, i think we need to settle a document that says look, this is who we are. this is what we stand for. and on our own journey here as a government, we did something similar in 2016, with a covenant of hope. we want to be able to let the people know nation building is not a passive act, it is very
we want to be able to let people know that nation building is not a passive act. it is very much an active entity, and if it is active, then we need to know who we are and what we stand for. all right. but you know, mia mottley, there are those in barbados who say look, the queen is a very benign presence. and secondly, you have just decided to do this. you haven t put this to a referendum. well, first of all, anyone who tells you that doesn t know the history of this country. we have been discussing a republic now since the late 1990s, and the 1998 constitutional reform commission that was led by sir henry forde and across a broad civil society and across all political parties recommended yet again that this is the direction in which we go.