Democrats. You think of it as a purely democrat area. Its a very unfair situation. Donald trump may have violated the gag order in his Hush Money Trial yet again yesterday during a radio interview, complaining about the jury. Well get expert legal analysis on that. And yesterdays Opening Statements and first witness. Plus, well go through the newly unsealed transcripts in the classified Documents Case which shows a former white house staffer tried to warn trump about the legal issues he could face. You know, if he stole classified documents. And its another day where trump is in court and President Biden is on the Campaign Trail. This time in trumps home state. Well preview the president s speech in tampa, florida. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, april 23rd. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. And Deputy Managing Editor for politics at politico, sam stein. Doing a little Way Too Early duty this morning. Of co
Good to be with you. Im katy tur. It was an explosive day in criminal court today. Donald trumps one time ally and friend, david pecker, laid out in detail what he, Michael Cohen, and donald trump agreed to do to protect his campaign. And then how they did it. Describing multiple conversations and multiple moments of the campaign on multiple topics including times when pecker directly advised trump saying quote, i think you should buy it, about Karen Mcdougles story, to which trump responded he would think about it according to pecker and have cohen call him back. The question for jurors was any of this illegal. Pecker is the man at the center of trumps catch and kill scheme in the run up to the 2016 election and he could be a more Essential Witness to cohen. Because pecker is corroborating when cohen has long alleged. That there was a 2015 meeting in trump tower where he, pecker and trump hatched a plan to protect trump and hurt his opponents in his campaign for president. Today, peck
discussion three days after his shaky debate performance. calls for him to drop out of the race continue as do the talks of democrats frantically looking for an alternative to a nominee to take his place. well only to a brand new welcome the a brand new hour of fox news live, i m arthel neville. eric: i m eric shawn. the president is now back at camp david where he spent those days last week preparing for the debate, and the white house is strongly pushing back on reports the first family is there for a heart to heart and whether he should today in the race. hay point out to the long-scheduled family reunion there well before last thursday s night. but in rallies after, mr. biden came on strong to cheering supporters. the campaign saying he is not going anywhere. some top democrats are said to be voicing concerns behind closed doors, while in public they are standing strongly behind the president. there was that same kind of a freakout after my debate, and i might even
for the first time people getting out of gaza, an opening at the rafah crossing. hundreds of foreign nationals could getit out over the next f days. a second strike has rocked the refugee camp in northern gaza. what we are learning about this blast. the strike yesterday in the same area took out a hamas commander, but dozens others feared dead, as well. donald trump junior set to take the stand in a $250 million trial where donald trump has been found liable for fraud. i m john berman with kate bolduan. sara sidner is on assign. this is cnn news central. two big developments right now in the israel-hamas war. first, let s talk about the rafah crossing. according to officials on the palestinian side of the crossing, as many as 110 foreign passport holders are traveling through the checkpoint at the gaza border. the crossing, you remember, has been closed since hamas attacked israel sparking this war. since then people have not been allowed through. now they are.
menendez. we begin with heavy bombing underway right now as israel announces a new phase in its war against hamas. the past 24 hours, israeli forces have intensified ground attacks inside the gaza strip, and increased the already constant airstrikes. nbc news crew member in gaza says the situation is growing desperate for civilians, quote, no water, no food, no medicine, no fuel, no electricity, and the bombing does not stop. the palestinian health ministry reports more than 7500 people have died in gaza, 1400 have been killed in israel. protesters around the world today calling for a humanitarian cease-fire. it s real s prime minister, netanyahu, dismissing the criticism, and predicting a long war ahead. there are moments in which a nation faces two options. to exist or to seize. right now, this is the kind of test we are facing, i have no doubt how it will end. we will come out triumphant. we ve eradicated the infrastructure of terrorism, and it s only the beginning of th