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good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a busy weekend, let s get to some of the conversations you may have missed. had i been president biden when the justice department came, i would have been it made me, president biden the be gotten the person i pardoned, the little guy. i can t keep up with this. stephanie is right here. i know she is. that is why i am saying, stephanie, i can t keep up with this guy. they are all saying mitch mcconnell says, oh we can t impeach him here, we ve got to try. and now that romney is saying, we can t try, we ve got to acquit. that is what was so stunning to me. for mitt romney to say, joe biden should have stepped in and pressure prosecutors like, what? doesn t mitt romney support separate, but equal branches of government? i read mitt romney s book where he talks about being afraid for his family when he voted to impeach donald trump. he was afraid of presidential overreach, what t ....
while his own lawyer roasts him. look, i get the defense s argument that you can t trust michael cohen because he hates donald trump, but, to be fair, everyone who has ever worked with donald trump hates donald trump. at some point, you have to be like, i think it s trump. we also learned what the defense ordered for lunch today. 14 pizzas, four cheese, five pepperoni, four sausage and pepperoni, and one chicken, bacon, and ranch. no word yet on what trump s lawyers ordered. boom, boom. okay. good morning. welcome to morning joe. willie, it is, today, officially, i have triple sourced this, friday. she did. yes. we did it. friday, may 17th, everybody. we made it. welcome to morning joe. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. and associate editor, the great eugene robinson. jonathan lemire going to hang his american flag upside down because the red sox lost las ....
now i m pete medina, reagan national airport this morning, a defining moment in donald about a critical phone call how much will it impact the jury? deadly storms in texas for people killed and several states in the south now facing life-threatening flooding and hurricane force winds and supreme court justice samuel alito reportedly flew an upside-down american flag. representing the stop the steal movement at his home. after the january 6 insurrection right, 6:00 a.m. here in washington alive. look at the white house on this friday morning. it has been all week. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us. donald trump had a pretty good day in court. the former president s sat back and watched his former fixer struggle on the stand for several flowers on thursday, michael cohen facing an intense cross-examination about his past lives and a more recent possible inconsistency. trump lawyer todd blanche zeroing in on testimony, cohen gave ....
of. ayman donald trump s gag order in the federal election case to reinstate, it we re gonna have the latest details in just a moment. then even more legal troubles for the ex president. his entire family about to take the stand in his civil fraud trial. and mike pence goes out with a whimper. our farewell to the man who barely made a dent in the 2024 presidential race. i m even mohegan let s get started. we begin this hour with our breaking news, the judge overseeing donald trump s federal election subversion criminal case has reinstated a gag order she issued on the ex president just earlier this month tanya chutkan also denied trump s request to issue a long term stay of the order which bars him from publicly targeting court personnel, potential witnesses or the special counsel s team while his appeal played out. she originally issued the order after prosecutors raise concerns that the ex president could intimidate witnesses or encourage harm against prosecutors thro ....
federal action case has been reinstated. we ll have the latest details in a moment. and then even more legal troubles for the ex president. his entire family back to take the stand in his fraud trial. mike pence got whose help with a whimper. he barely made a dent in the 2024 presidential race. let s get started we begin this hour with the breaking news of donald trump aversion criminal case has reinstated a gag order she issued on the ex president just earlier this month tanya chutkan also denied trump s request to issue a long term stay of the order which bars him from publicly targeting court personnel, potential witnesses or the special counsel s team while his appeal played out. she originally issued the order after prosecutors raise concerns that the ex president could intimidate witnesses or encourage harm against prosecutors through his public comments. at this hour donald trump now faces to gag orders barring him from discussing his legal cases in the public. ....