money payments to stormy daniels. remember that? now, that could come back to haunt him. his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, says trump can t hide from the paper trail. calling the new grand jury convened by the manhattan d.a. his biggest legal threat yet. and there are many. meanwhile, the former president is suing journalist bob woodward for $50 million. we ll explain what that is all about. plus, more fallout and firings in the aftermath of tyre nichols death. we ll go live to memphis for the latest in that case. for the second time in three years, lawmakers on capitol hill are talking about police reform following a high-profile murder case involving officers. we ll look at whether these discussions have a real chance at being successful. and president joe biden announces a major policy shift on covid in response to strong opposition from house republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 31st. joe will be back tomorrow.
aassistant u.s. attorney for new york. his book, powerful people, how they get away with it. good to have you on this side of the street. congratulations on the book. it s as you timed it to the news this morning. pure luck. we ll talk about the book in a moment, but specifically about this case. the d.a., alvin bragg, impaneled a grand jury. given everything you know about this case, having worked down there, what does this tell you, the news this morning? this story has come roaring back to life. it is interesting. now the d.a., the state level prosecutor here in manhattan, is reviving this and is going to put it in front of a grand jury which, of course, has the power the indict. we ll see whether the d.a., alvin, who i used to work with, by the way, will ask them for an indictment. what i found interesting is the reporting i do for this book focuses on, two years ago, the feds, the southern district of new york, my former office, had to decide, are we going to try to indict
records, and when she graduated she was offered a job, eventually an assistant. eventually becoming aassistant to luke lewis. a demo without roberts name on it found its way to lewis desk and her days of answering the phones were over. she got to work on her first record. please welcome julie roberts. reporter: cmt was there in the moment when roberts first single debuted on the record. radio. roberts album went gold. she was living the dream. and then one night on stage a nightmare. i can t even remember the city. but i remember the stage. i can see it in my mind. i was holding the microphone. the band was behind me. they were playing like they always do. and i lost use of my right hand. and i knew that it was giving out, so i switched to my left.
nbc sports network anchor and co-host of the crossover dave briggs. dave, we re getting different reaction from the sports world but also governor christy put out this statement, this is regrettable, but i completely support the decision to remove coach rice. it was the right decision in light of the videotape. all of the student athletics entrusted to our care deserve much better. as we move on from this, i m very optimistic that rutgers will select a new head coach that not only put a s winning team on the court, and he goes on. but this a big black eye for them. huge. do you think the a.d. is going to go down for this as well? i think he s gone. i think there s question tim pernetti cannot survive this. look what happened. he let go of an aassistant coach because he didn t like an appearance he made at a camp, yet you did not fire your head coach for both the verbal and the physical. i think you said it best. if you turned that video off and just listened to it, you ought to
block legislation. this thing is going to get big. we are getting developments on this in my ear. also it seems kelly s court has fans everywhere, including funnyman jay leno. wait until you see what leno has to say about kelly s court. i was happy when fox news read a list of naomi s run-ins with the law. look a what happened. we pulled they are assault record for this segment. she plead guilty of assaulting her former personal aassistant. another assistant filed assault charges in 2004. @=h