You were past your prime. Hell, i know something about that. President biden was cracking jokes with defending World Series Champions at the white house yesterday. That looked fun. We do have a lot to get to this morning. A very confused judge in fort pierce. Oh, my gosh. She was shocked, shocked that you could have two grand juries going on at the same time. Its not a good sign, actually. Whered she go to law school . Oh, boy, a lot of questions. Not a good sign. Well go through the flurry of legal filings last yesterday in the 2020 election case that has the judge summoning both sides to a washington, d. C. , courtroom. Different judge. This is a different judge, a different case. Plus, action around the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta. Different case. Sparking speculation that another indictment, another one, could be coming very soon for the former president. Also ahead, well explain how the fight for Abortion Rights in ohio could hang on what happens in todays special election
morning joe starts right now trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the united states came down yesterday when a new york city grand jury convened by the manhattan district attorney s office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge donald trump. because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they center around that $130,000 payment trump allegedly made to porn star stormy daniels just days before the 2016 election, to keep her silent about an affair she claims the two had a decade earlier according to the star witness in the case, trump s own former lawyer, michael cohen, the trump organization tried to cover up the payment, falsely claiming it was a legal expense. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, march 31st along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too ea early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire the host of politics nation, presid
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Job Approval Rating probably has seven or eight points, maybe even a little more of what i think of as 401 k trumpers right now. I think there are people who are looking at their statements, people who are on the right side of the economic equation any way. They see their numbers going up for all sorts of reasons. And so theyre willing to not really dive in to this russian novel story that no one can quite figure out. And theyre willing to suspend their bizarrely in my view, but they are willing to suspend their ordinary moral judgments about how this president conducts himself and is now representing us on the world stage. But i would not, if i were in the white house, count on that lasting until 2020. Well see. Joe, your latest column in the Washington Post really speaks to this entitled trump finally
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Met with volodymyr zelenskyy. g i m soupsupposed to call you. i spoke with vivek early on. seems like a smart guy. maybe i ll have him on the show, but his statements keep getting more bizarre by the day. he talks about defunding the fbi. he says stupid stuff like this. you know, it s more, i think, a reflection on him, of course, but it s also a reflection on just how crazy these republican candidates think they have to be to win the votes of the base. what is going on out there? he s having to say this. by the way, for the record, this is a guy that i don t think voted republican until 2020, and he wrote in his book that donald trump behaved abhorrently after january the 6th.
Then you could have a democratic d.a. doing the same thing. yeah, that may be the rubicon that we ve crossed at the same time, as peter points out, as jon has pointed out, you also have the very, very american concept, and there are those of us who still actually believe in america, love america, and want to defend the rule of law in america despite the fact that a lot of people love a former game show host who started riots and behaved abhorrently, there s a lot of us that still believe that, in this country, no man is above the law. so there is a balancing act. two things can be true at once if you serious moment. if you turned this on and expected anybody to be gleeful on this show, you re not reading the room right these are very perilous times. yeah. it s not to say that, perhaps, after we read the indictment, we won t say, well,