The deals on top before there job the defense has rested. Testimony has wrapped, and donald trump notably did not take the stand of course, sanchez, alongside jessica dean in the nations capital, and soon the judge and attorneys for both sides are expected to go back in court to go over Jury Instructions. In this historic Criminal Hush Money Trial of the former president. Earlier today, jurors were dismissed for the week the judge telling them to be ready for Closing Arguments next tuesday it comes after the defenses second and final witness, attorney Robert Costello, took the stand for a second day, and once again, the former adviser to Michael Cohen face some tough crossexaminati on prosecutors, youth castellows, emails in an attempt to show he made several efforts to stop cohen from flipping and assured him that he had a backchannel to trump won email dated april 19, 2018, indicated trumps former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was joining trumps team and costello wrote to cohen, quote im su
Up, ted cruz is On Fox Defending Trump by saying the opposite. Theres no person on planet earth that believes donald trump has been sell celebate all of his life. Thats not news. We have a lot on Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial. What a week it has been. Stormy daniels wrapping up testimony with a contentious and bizarre crossexamination from trumps legal term. Well get expert legal analysis on that and what we can expect in court today because its not over yet. Plus, we have reaction from capitol hill to President Bidens threat to withhold some Weapons Shipments to israel over its possible invasion of rafah. More republicans are krilt criticizing the president and hes facing backlash from democrats. And Kevin Mccarthy is having a hard time coping with the fact that mike johnson did something he could not. Well show you mccarthys dig at his successor. It seems, i dont know, not okay, will legal, good morning, and welcome to morning joe. Its friday, may 10th. With us we have the
good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 8th. glad it s friday, but we do have a lot to get to this morning, willie. president biden is putting more pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to allow additional aid into gaza. we ll have more details on the first conversation between the two leaders in 11 days. a lot of questions. meanwhile, the president s son is facing several new tax charges. we ll break down the allegations against hunter biden. plus, a recap of donald trump s day in court for his civil tax fraud trial. he was there as the former president is now expected to be the last person to take the stand. that should happen next week. also ahead, a rare ruling in a post roe world. a judge in texas granted an emergency request for an abortion, but the state s attorney general is threatening to prosecute any doctor who treats the woman. we ll talk about that. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bur
have israelis planning a year-long manhunt around the globe to kill militants, which is probably what this was destined to be from the very beginning. but the news that is really rattling things in washington, from washington to tel-aviv, is this explosive new york times exclusive. oh, my goodness. that the israelis actually knew of this plan of attack in great specifics for a year, for a year, before october the 7th. we re going to speak to one of the reporters who broke that story in a moment. with us, we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius. congressional investigations reporter for washington post, jackie alemany. who will be reporting, of course, on kevin mccarthy s call with donald trump. yeah, what s that? come on, man. he s not eating, so depressed. i have to see him. calling him, yeah. also with us, u.s. national editor at the financial times, ed luce. and katty kay is making her way to the table, as