hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
much we ll talk to you again a little later on morning joe. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now another community is grieving this morning following another deadly mass shooting this time, it was at a birthday party in small town alabama. we ll have the latest in the investigation and the reaction to more gun violence in america. a daily occurrence almost. it comes as the nra held its annual convention this weekend in indianapolis, with donald trump as one of its top speakers we ll show you the mixed reception the crowd gave to a possible challenger to trump in the 2024 republican presidential race also ahead, new reporting on the wealthy donors who are now backing away from ron desantis why they are ditching the florida governor before he even launches a presidential came p campaign plus, the legal fight over abortion medication will go before the supreme court this week we ll break down
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president biden ordered to down the object. is it a fair take away the pentagon regrets not taking down the first balloon before crossing across the u.s.? i can tell you the president doesn t regret the way we handled the first balloon. the general area would be just off the very, very northeastern part of alaska. it was an object, let me just clarify, i m not classifying it as a balloon. it s an object and we re trying to learn more from it. laura: kirby s confusing, incomplete and inconvenient act of the object is par for the course. no one knows what to believe. if you love watching car racing, you know that it is never pretty when this happens. unfortunately for us, when biden s wheels come off, it s america that breaks apart. more than any other week than the deadly afghanistan withdraw, this past one has been one where things seem to be karineing out of control. if biden thought that sending an f22 to shoot down that spy balloon was going to help course correct, h