if you re watching morning joe weekend. and if you can t get enough of us on monday through friday. which is kind of surprising we talk a lot. no surprise it was another really busy week with trump s legal woe deepening, and desantis making headlines for all the wron reasons. let s take a look at some of our top stories this week! michael cohen, the one tim attorney and fixer for donal trump, wrapped up his testimon before a grand jury convened before the math and district office in the investigation of trump. and hush money paid to adult film actress, story daniels. cohen spent about two hour yesterday, testifying before the grand jury, in the first appearance on monday when he testified for abou three hours. and the woman of the center of the hush money payments has no spoken with prosecutors in the case as well stormy daniels attorney said that he and daniels both met with prosecutors, via zoom yesterday. calling the conversation substantive, and a goo meeting. the att
they re saying to you, ron don t get trumpy on russia senator brown, who you jus heard there, also had this t say. the novel chamberlain approach to aggression never ends well. to russia never ends well. this is an attempt by putin to rewrite the map of europe by force of arms. meanwhile, republican senator, john cornyn of texas, tell politico, i am disturbed by it i think he s a smart guy, want to find it more about it, but i hope he feels like h doesn t need to take tha tucker carlson line to b competitive in the primary it s important for us to continue to support ukrainians for our own security by particle, where do you want to go with this? i mean, it s a huge scree being unveil in front of war o desantis you ve got to wonder, did he ever read a book - did he read a newspaper today? linking neville chamberlain to what he says, a slur are never traveling in, nevill chamberlain was at least aware
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republicans about how to conduct the president s senate impeachment trial. three people who have spoken to the president tell politico that privately donald trump is still harboring a desire to create a flashy testimony filled trial fueled by a belief that such an approach would vindicate him and embarrass democrats, which is the exact opposite of the quick witness free trial that senate republican leaders have been planning and that the president has publicly insisted he too wants. joining me now is former u.s. attorney harry litman, and former federal prosecutor doug burns. welcome to both of you. doug, what do you think, the president having a long drawn out trial with multiple witnesses, does that benefit him? what i thought, honestly, was that the president being the way he is with his personality, going after everybody, we want this long drawn out thing but that cooler heads wo would prev and mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham would convince him, the president, not to do that.
acosta to resign. it is now impossible for anyone to have confidence in secretary acosta s ability to lead the department of labor. if he refuses to resign, president trump should fire him. this morning, acosta took to twitter to defend himself. he claimed prosecutors in new york had new evidence that was unavailable to him a decade ago. the trump administration is supporting him. but former white house advisers tell politico, quote, the next 72 hours are critical for acosta. the way to stay in this administration is to stay under the radar, out of the news and be quiet. potus would like it if it lingers. so the big question that we re asking today, how long will president trump stand by alex acosta? joining me is nbc news white house correspondent kelly o donnell, associated press white house reporter and msnbc political analyst jonathan