this, but if you don t sign this certification. if you do sign the certification you will never be getting the audit that you are present for. that was a reporter from the detroit knows speaking about an audio recording he said he heard which a reporter had captured donald trump telling michigan officials not to sort of the 2020 election results. we re gonna dig into the explosive new reporting. plus, as trump continues to double down on his anti immigrant rhetoric, a recent poll shows republican voters saying that his racist language makes him more likely to vote for him. also ahead? america s mayor is broke. rudy giuliani filed for bankruptcy just days after being ordered to pay 100 and $46 million in his defamation case. and, regrets. he has had a few. what s presidential candidate, ron desantis is saying is the one thing that he wishes he could change about the gop primary. here is a hint. it is not anything that he did. good morning, welcome to morning joe. i am jonath
the charges here are of the utmost gravity. it s just one, just one trump-related case before the supreme court right now. we re going to start with cnn legal analyst kari cordero and cnn supreme court analyst joan bis biscoupic. what do you make of this request from jack smith? he wants to reiterate as strongly as possible as the justices are considering it at this very moment the importance of the case, why delay would hurt the situation, hurt the public interest. not so much hurt the government s case as hurt the public s interest. he says nothing short of democracy is at stake. he really uses the fact that we re dealing with a former president here. he wants to say why donald trump is not like any other defendant, why he needs to jump over an appellate court at this point because donald trump should have to account for his actions back in 2020. he doesn t mention 2024 s election at all. he wants to he s talking about the imperative of being able to hold him accountab
what the pilots had to do. first tonight, this deadly confrontation unfolding in front of witnesses on the streets of new york. police trying to arrest a suspect barricaded in. the suspect then opening fire on police. aaron katersky on the scene. this powerful storm system moving east, heavy snow and flood threats from colorado straight over to florida. then right up the east coast, the i-95 corridor, from d.c. to philadelphia to new york city. rain, snow, damaging winds. and rob marciano times it out. this close call on the runway. the video showing a jetblue passenger plane pulling up sharply during takeoff to avoid a head-on collision. how did this happen? the high-stakes meeting in israel. president biden s national security adviser jake sullivan urging prime minister benjamin netanyahu to scale back the assaults on gaza. netanyahu s response tonight. james longman standing by in israel. meantime, the terror arrests. multiple countries. the hamas threat elsewher
at this hour, a dramatic volcano eruption in iceland. what we know about the most powerful eruption to hit the area in years, next. and appeals court has just shutdown mark meadows bid to move his case into federal court. the major blow to trump s former chief of staff and the big win for fani willis. plus, a new report on the january 6th rally outside the capitol. the text messages showing the organizers purposely misled authorities about their intentions that day. and a blue and green christmas. despite how some americans feel about the economy, a new survey says it isn t stopping them from spending big this holiday season. and just how much more may surprise you. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc s molly hunter on the eruption in iceland, spewing lava 300 feet into the air. what s happening, molly? yeah, of course iceland, no stranger to massive eruptions, but the pictures we have seen overnight like nothing we ha
saying that where it counts. in court. not yet. but the former president s attorneys did tip their hand that they think an indictment could be coming against mr. trump and the mar-a-lago case, pointing out any documents, if that evidence exists, could be used in future charges. got it covered from all angles including from outside the courthouse. we know the demonstrators who have showed up in brooklyn behind you, not surprisingly i think given the fact it s brooklyn, new york city, leans democratic. they are anti-trump demonstrators. you ve also seen the arrival of some of the attorneys, yes. yeah, i think we got some of this video in which the trio of attorneys now representing trump arrived a few minutes ago. yelled at by several demonstrators here that are also in attendance. this is the brooklyn federal courthouse. we re just about ten minutes here from manhattan. this is the first time in which the judge is going to be meeting with not only the doj, but also with trum