his mother said a lot of things. god love you, indeed. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it s friday, march 19th. with us, we have msnbc contributor, mike barnicle, and white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lamir. joe and mika have the morning off. it is a busy morning, though, as kasie just mentioned, we re getting fans in the stands for baseball. good for you. mets, yankees, 20% capacity, a few thousand fans in there. at least it s a start. i know how excited you are about the yankees hot start and spring training and seeing some of those great yankees fans populating that stadium in the bronx. as my mother would say actually, i can t say that on the air. you better no. we re going to have 12% capacity at fenway park. lamir, you excited for the yanks? they re looking good in the spring? willie, my question is, as yankee stadium fills up to 10, 15, 20% capacity, that s obviously going to leave a lot of empty seats, particularly dow
shoulders, the small of my back, my waist. often enough by late 2014 i didn t want to go to the holiday party he was hosting for the albany press corps at the executive mansion. john: some top democrats are joining the list of the lawmakers demanding cuomo s resignation including house judiciary chairman jerry nadler among several prominent new york lawmakers issued statements saying that the time has come. sandra: yeah. yet still silence from vice president kamala harris on this. she has not joined those calls by fellow democrats for him to resign. nor have we heard from senators gillibrand or elizabeth warren, all three of whom were vocal in opposition of brett kavanaugh in the confirmation hearing. all of this is after the governor s own lawyer reported a groping allegation to the police. the woman involved has so far declined to press charges herself. cuomo has continued to deny the allegations, john. john: sandra, the cover of the new york post stating it all.
Back. Overnight weve seen the president evolve his thinking to now advocate for the Death Penalty and, regardless, both of these statements are somewhat inappropriate and unprecedented just in terms of what a president traditionally would say, which is to restrain from offering this sort of commentary. It is in keep with the kind of public persona that donald trump has cultivated over many, many years in public life of trying to show himself to be strong and tough and have this steely resolve. But hes not a commentator anymore. Hes the president of the United States. So theres a different standard, and his words carry a different weight. Theres an obliviousness to the fact that he sits atop the federal government. A federal government whose Justice System he described yesterday as a Laughing Stock and a joke. Well, the comment to first it just shows his total lack of rigor in making any
pronouncements. This is someone who revels in his unpreparedness. Its an improvisational act. Theres
Potentially it could be big. I mean, looking at Michael Cohen, what this means is the same tactic that we have seen happening in this investigation out of the Southern District of new york, is happening, that we see happen in the Mueller Investigation. They go after other witnesses, encourage them to cooperate, and in this case you have this Business Partner who is cooperating, being offered significant being offered a potential sentence that is much smaller than what he could be facing. He could be facing 25 years for each count, owing millions of dollars in back taxes. All of that is being reduced, which says to me that he has some information that prosecutors would be interested in regarding Michael Cohen. That subsequently puts more pressure on Michael Cohen to cooperate to reduce his potential legal exposure and talk about whatever he knows that could aid the Mueller Investigation. It also, since this is outside of the jurisdiction of the Mueller Investigation, it really could tak
Which i imagine mueller i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him. It would involve something that actually wasnt settled even to this day. Whats the conflict in. I have a good idea what it is. Its one that would have kept me out the investigation. All cleared up . Add to that this. Giuliani is not sure that collusion with russia that collusion with russia, if it happened, is a crime anyway. Is this the definition now of moving the goalposts . Regardless of goalpost moving, why then is the president spending so much time and at every turn will say that no collusion happened with russia if its now not a big deal and not a problem . Again, all cleared up . As far as Michael Cohen, the president s Attorney Says cohen doctored the tapes of his conversations with the president , says their experts agree. Now what . Abby phillip is at the white house. I would not fault anyone if their head was spinning today
the payment to an alleged mistress, its not about that. Its abou