welcome to a special edition of jesse waters prime time. i m will cain in for jesse. and we start with the fox news alert. a major blow for the democratic party. the supreme court today shut down special counsel jack smith s appeal to fast track trump s january 6 case, handing trump a christmas gift. time jack smith. the overzealous prosecutor with the scraggly beard, tried to leapfrog the lower court of appeals and force a quick decision on the question of whether or not the former president should be granted immunity from his federal charges. why? to make sure donald trump spends the month of march stuck in a courtroom. trump, who s already been out of commission for the last two months over his fraud case in new york will be taken off of the campaign trail again, meaning no rallies, no fundraisers, and will be forced back into the court the day before super tuesday, when trump is supposed to be on the ballot in 16 states. it s been the biden campaign strategy a
will: welcome to a special edition of jesse watters primetime. i m will cain in for jesse. we start with a fox news alert. a major blow for the democratic party. the supreme court today shot down special counsel jack smith s appeal to fast track trump s january 6th case, handing trump a christmas gift: time. jack smith, the overzealous prosecutor with a scraggly beard, tried to leapfrog the lower court of appeals and force a quick decision on the question of whether or not the former president should be granted immunity from his federal charges. why? to make sure donald trump spends the month of march stuck in a courtroom. trump, who s already been out of commission for the last two months over his fraud case in new york, will be taken off of the campaign trail. again, meaning no rallies, no fund-raisers. he will be forced back into the court the day before super tuesday when trump is supposed to be on the ballot in 16 states. it s been the biden campaign strategy all alo
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
morning continues right now. done. my nephew is alive. yes healing. it is not the story that that individual intended for us to tell you that right? there is a lot of hate. yeah right. here is a lot of love. love versus hate . disappoint they were making good morning, everyone. we re so glad you re here. caitlin is off protests and outrage in kansas city after a homeowner shot a black teenager. police say the team went to the wrong house by mistake when he was just trying to pick up his younger brothers to talk to you about the fox news to many in trial, it is delayed. there s new reporting. the network is trying to settle out of court with dominion voting systems. we re live outside the courthouse for you. brand new cnn reporting this morning. we re learning supreme court justice clarence thomas is going to make some changes to his financial disclosure forms after a real estate deal with the gop mega donor came to light this morning calls for justice across the country after
trip ahead for you just one lawmaker who joined protesters demanding meaningful gun legislation at the state capital kept her seat yesterday. representative gloria johnson, a white woman, slammed the expulsion of her colleagues justin jones and justin pearson, two of the state s youngest black lawmakers, saying she was the only one to be spared was quote, pretty clear. outrage over the pair s removal is being felt across the country, coupled with the concern of the dangerous precedent this is sending. and a short time ago, tennessee s black caucus whose chairman called the decision an assault on democracy that quote, smacks of overt racism spoke out. it looked like a jim crow era trial, where we saw two black men fighting for their careers, fighting for their reputations. the world is watching tennessee, and yet again, they re watching it for the wrong reasons. quite frankly, i m kpexhausted. what are we going to do now is it going to be business as usual, it happened t