impeached twice including once for trying to illegally remain in power, a star who is been indicted in four different jurisdictions and faces a minimum of 91 charges, a star preparing for six scheduled criminal and civil trials over the next nine months while running for the 2024 republican presidential nomination, a star who has not been hurt politically by any of this at all. a recent wall street journal poll of republicans pushed donald trump s support at 59%, a full 46 percentage points higher than second place ron desantis. it actually kicks off in atlanta on wednesday, arraignment a for the 19 defendants in the case helmed by fulton county dna fani willis. trump and 11 codefendants way for the right to appear in court. trump also pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal counts. not only that, trump has requested to sever his case from other codefendants seeking a speedy trial like this guy, not that guy, but like his former attorney ken cheeseborough who is set to go to trial.
the cameras will continue to roll. they are breaking down all of the cases on his very busy court calendar. and, we the loss of a music icon, jimmy buffett, the singer of margaritaville has died. let s take a look at his decades long career, all of this and more, coming up. a good saturday morning to you all. i am katie phang. we begin this morning with president biden s trip to florida today to get a look at recovery efforts after hurricane adalja made landfall as a category three storm. the damage estimates could be as high as 20 billion dollars according to moody analytics. the president said he would meet with florida governor, ron desantis today. in a statement, desantis said the governor does not have plans to meet with biden during his trip. instead, biden will meet with republican senator, rick scott. the response comes days after president biden approved a major disaster declaration for florida and ordered a federal aid to supplement recovery efforts in sev
leader mitch mcconnell while he was answering questions from reporters. how his team is responding to growing concerns about the republican s health, including from some leading republicans. also ahead, rudy giuliani s lies about the 2020 election are catching up with him legally and financially. we ll explain yesterday s ruling by a judge. meanwhile, two of donald trump s co-defendants in the georgia election interference case now are requesting separate trials. we ll have the latest on a possible timeline in that case. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, august 31st. i m willie geist. with us this morning, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. we do begin again this morning with tropical storm now idalia. it weakened overnight but still making its way through the carolinas, dropping massive amounts of rain, flooding streets, causing widespread power outages. charleston, south carolina, recorded its fi
compensate the mother and daughter for their on going pain and distress. plus, we ll expose republican s new tactic of trying to upend democracy by targeting election officials and judges who pushed back against their false claims of widespread voter fraud. and in the wake of another campus shooting, unc student newspaper delivers a gut wrenching front page that revealed what it s really like to be a member of the run, hide, fight generation. that paper s editor in chief joins me later in the show. but we begin tonight with the architect of the plan to keep donald trump in power after he lost. john eastman, one of 19 co-defendants facing charges in the georgia criminal case. last week, eastman was booked into the fulton county jail, still pushing the big lie immediately after surrendering to authorities over efforts to overturn the georgia election. eastman is the author of the coup memo. advancing the theory that u.s. vice president has unilateral authority to reject c
and forced to go to trial in less than two weeks without qualified counsel in a death penalty case. glenn kirschner last night on this show, pointing out the absurdity of the idea that donald trump is just like a persecuted black teenager in the 1930s. as the right pushes a laughably racist narrative that being an accused felon gives trump street cred with the blacks. also tonight, tennessee state representative justin jones is again silenced by republican house leaders for passionately fighting for gun reform, after a mass murder at a nashville school. representative jones joins me tonight. but we begin tonight with a weird trend that we have noticed coming out of maga republican world. this is a party, after all, whose base is overwhelmingly the same demographic that gets its news from fox, so let s say not super diverse. but since trump came along in 2016, they keep insisting that because of him, republicanism is booming among black people. despite there being no evi