Welcome to a special twohour edition of the beat. Im katie phang. Were nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of a former u. S. President donald trump. Next week the case could be in the hand of the jury. Before that happens, Michael Cohen will be back on the Witness Stand Monday for a third day of cross examination by trumps defense attorney todd blanche. The defenses focus so far has been to try and portray the states key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted and who is only out for revenge against his former boss. The word lie was used more than 60 times in court yesterday. Through what felt at times like A Meandering Cross Examination Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness during questioning about one of the phone calls from october 2016 that cohen testified earlier in the week he had made with trump, allegedly telling him the payoff to Stormy Daniels was being handled. Yesterday cohen admitted that he was having trouble
Ahead. A packed two hours for you. New york mayor cory booker will join us. And poet journalist, angela davis will join us as well. Gold medal olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas has written a new book. And judy chu is with us, and the macks join us, and singer adam lambert. Monday, december 10th. And starting point begins right now. Wow, thats an ominous little graphic right there. Yes that is because the fiscal cliff is what were talking about this morning. Thats the starting point. President obama and the House Speaker speaking face to face for the first time in more than three weeks. The two men who stand between millions of americans and the fiscal cliff sat down, had a conversation. A Critical Development 22 days away from the cliff, which means severe tax hikes and spending cuts unless the two can find a way to compromise. Nobody is saying much. But spokesperson says the lines of communication remain open Erskin Bowles said this. You know, they have started to tango now and any time h
Youll see that as soon as my tax returns its under audit. Theyve been under audit for a long time. The irs does not treat me well. Reporter that number not only pails in comparison to most americans but also to past president s who all paid tens of thousands of dollars in federal taxes. Because of the massive losses, the report says trump paid no income tax at all in 11 of the 18 years of documents they obtained. When he did pay taxes, he reduced what he owed using questionable measures including a nearly 73 million tax refund now the subject of an irs audit. It turns out that trumps best known properties drained the most money. Hes lost about 315 million on his Golf Properties over the last two decades, including on Trump National doral near miami where the president tried to host the g7 summit. I was willing to do this for free, and it wouldve been the greatest g7 ever. Reporter the report also shows trump made more money than previously known from foreign governments, including duri
Thanks for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. Dont go anywhere. Morning joe starts right now. I think the three of us talking about a peaceful transfer of power speaks to the constitutional integrity of our country. In this is an unusual thing. We are both trying to come back to normalcy, deal with totally abnormal challenge and make a more Perfect Union. It is an exciting time. Approximate. We have to listen to folks that we agree with and folks that we dont. One of my fondest memories of the inauguration was the grace and generosity that president bush showed me and laura bush showed michelle. And it was a reminder that we can have fierce disagreements and yet recognize each others common humanity. And that as americans we have more in common than what separates us. Thats really moving. Really moving. Former president s bush, clinton and obama. A primetime inaugural special. Willie, this went on throughout the day. I mean, look at this. These families, they re
The meantime things are going to get worse. The virus is surging. The Biden White House wants to pose as a vaccine each for 50 Million People or 100 million jobs in 100 days and that requires a pace of 1 million a day, not much higher than the 850,000 a day average in the final days of the Trump Administration. Now a member of a federal vaccine Advisory Board is quoted by the New York Times said i love that he set a goal but a million doses a day, we can do better. We are going to have to what we want to get on top of this virus by summer. God willing not just 100 million but more than that. It will earn easy republican support. This doesnt have a partisan piece to it. Some republicans balk at including items like a 15 minimum wage or funding for public transportation. There are some added items in there that he will have a real tough time getting through that arent part of covid relief. He will have to separate those out, but when we talk about vaccine dollars and we talk about testin