Daniella, thank you. And thanks to you all for getting up Way Too Early with us on this wednesday morning. Morning joe starts now. When trump hasnt been asleep hes violating his gag order by posting messages attacking, witnesses. And so today the judge finally had his ruling on those. And charged him 9,000. 9,000 may not seem like a lot to a successful businessman but what about to trump . Well have all the developments from Donald Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial just ahead. Nbc legal analyst lisa reuben was inside the courtroom and shell join us in a moment. Well go through trumps interview with Time Magazine. The former president was asked about January 6th Abortion Policy and the upcoming election. And its worth a listen. Or a read. Plus well bring you the latest out of The Middle East, including israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus defiant comments on a possible invasion in southern gaza. Good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, may 1st, everybody. Its may .
Moving in right now. Manchester before 6 30 a little light rain, nashua as well. Early morning plans. Make sure to have your umbrella, plan accordingly. A few spotty showers falling apart as we get closer to ash burnham. Through the morning slight chance, light rain, but dont want you to get caught off guard. Then the afternoon, chance for steady showers mainly north of boston and then they move off shore for look at this, temperatures warming up as we have a mild southwest wind. Highs in the 50s and 60s. Heather big changes right now taking place along the mass. Pike. Toll books being torn down. Jason thats right. Automated to go that doesnt require you to stop or slow down. Fox 25 Stephanie Coueignoux is live at the weston polls. Today is a big day. The new system. Reporter yeah, to a lot of drivers its probably going to be the first day that they experience this. Again, this took place very late last night. So far still early, we havent seen any problems. Take a look behind me, they
Polls. You can see that whats been doing not only here but overnight in asia. Lets look quick overnight in asia up see the nikkei up about 1 . Hang sepg up about a third of a percent. The trading in european equities right now where the polls are open in the uk. You can see the dax, the cac up about 2 . The fooths up about 1. 5. Italy up about 2. 3 and spain, the ibex about 1. 7 . Currency is where this is playing out. The undecideds. If you are undecided. The brexit people are like fantically brexit. The ones that are brexit they have been brexit all along. And if you are not decided yet you are not fantically brexit so you are a stay. Atically brexit so you are a stay. What i worry about is worried the markets price caught all this is now an asymmetric risk at this point. 148 top pound. Take look at the currency boards again. Sterling round it up. 148. 54. Crude oil which the markets have been playing so much attention to. 49. 84. Across the pond now. The top story and polls are now
Mike pence, the man donald trump picked to be his running mate, and he will give what many are calling the biggest speech of his career, michelle. First, weve got to talk about the speech we just heard from ted cruz, on full display, again tonight. The deep divisions in the Republican Party. Ted cruz comes out, he congratulates trump. No full endorsement. He endorses his positions, endorses building the wall, and there are boos, as he rounds up the speech, finishes out with a fullthroated endorsement of donald trump. Heres what he said. So that when we are old and gray, and when our work is done, and we give those we love one final kiss goodbye, we will be able to say, freedom matters, and i was part of something beautiful. There were boos, you could hear them. It was really a stunning moment, because ted cruz was not only not sborgz druendorsing do, he was congratulating him, and he made repeated references to values and principles that he clearly believes that donald trump does not s
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