bipartisan issues of support, and so is the principle of not holding the full faith and credit of the united states hostage for ideological aims just because the president is from a different party. and that s your reality check. john, thank you very much for that. and new day continues right now. today, the trump organization goes on trial for tax fraud. i m john berman with brianna keilar. the former president s family business charged in connection with an alleged scheme to compensate executives off the books. one of those executives ex-cfo allen weisselberg, cooperating with the d.a. if the trump organization is convicted it would be required to pay back taxes and fines. donald trump and his children are not accused of wrongdoing in this case. kara scannell is outside the courthouse with the latest. just an hour or so from now, jury selection will begin in the criminal tax fraud trial of the trump organization. the judge will begin the screening of prospective
that s why the world works with servicenow. former president trump was interviewed by sean hannity on fox news and when hannity brought up trump s claim he declassified the documents at mar-a-lago, he gave an interesting explanation. is there a process? what was your process to there doesn t have to be a process, as i understand it. different people say different things, but if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. [ laughter ] hannity was like, i get it, you re going to plead insanity. now it s making sense. welcome back to morning joe. it is 6:00 in the morning tong west coast as you look at los angeles, 9:00 in the east on this friday, september 23rd. a busy hour ahead, including the new pressure on donald trump s legal team to prove in a court of law the allegation trump has been making in public that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. there is also new reporting showing
you could have gone the easier route, turned this into a cheesy jukebox sort of musical that, you know, all the tours we flood into and see, but your standards were set much higher. talk about that an talk about the need to stay true to the original movie. well, i wanted to have some of the main songs that people remember, tiny dancer, elton john and the wind, cat stevens, we have ramble on from led zeppelin and the show, but also with tom kit, the composer, we have been able to like craft songs that are in the spirit of those songs from 1973. so that you can play a little bit of a game with the show of, is that an obscure elton john song i never heard. is that a led zeppelin song. i kind of like that it s a stew of new stuff, so we re looking forward as well as looking back, and it s a very cool thing that
mitchell song? wait. and all blend together. and some are written by tom kit and me. and our director jeremy heron kind of brought all of the elements together and it is the elixir from a movie in a live experience and a little bit of a concert too happens. it sounds like a blast. you mentioned your mom who is a huge theater lover, a huge fan of yours. right? let s be fair. yes. and you know, she s in the film, in a way. yes. talk to me about your relationship with her, and i know you lost her, just as this was getting on the stage. yes, two days before our first audiences came in to see the show in san diego, before the pandemic, she passed away. and her crusade was to get me to like never give up on bringing the story to the theater. and i would sometimes say i don t know, mom, is it going to be great? i m not sure. she would say, negativity is in every cell of the body, you can t create that, you can t make that so, be positive, never
juliette did not die at the end of romeo and juliette. it s female empowerment. it s funny. a fabulous broadway company. we re seeing betsy wolf. it s a great show. fun for the whole family. a beautiful noise is neil diamond. you have some movies coming to broadway including almost famous. yeah, we re looking right now at neil diamond, a beautiful noise. we have tina turner, carol king. and i have to tell you sweet caroline is a group number at the end of the show with audiences chiming in. you mentioned almost famous , based on the film. it s coming to broadway. tom kit who wrote the music for next to normal. did the score for almost