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has officially finished. the defense only called two witnesses. and yesterday, rested their case. former president trump did not testify in his own defense despite telling the press multiple times he wanted to. you testify in your trial. yeah, i would testify absolutely. it s a scam. it s a scam. are you going to testify? yes. will you testify? no he won t stop. he the gag is not to testify. do you plan to testify in court? i probably so. i would like to. i mean i think so. i mean, there s a story of his life, who shocked me can nobody s shocked. it is a guy who said of course i am going to testify, you knew he was not going to testify for a couple reasons. one, he is just a walking perjury machine. seriously? you got a new ice cream machine that you say makes ice cream. the mcreamy by ninja. and creamy, yeah, well, he is a ninja perjury machine right? you stand in front of it for a couple seconds. i will never look at the creamy the same way. ....
the plan thaet can do that other than the pope. the pope. republican congressman troy nells of texas with a totally normal comparison for the former president, the pope. a recap of what happened yesterday in donald trump s criminal hush money trial in just a moment. plus, trump s comments about birth control that he quickly had to walk back. also ahead a former senior adviser to president obama lays out an alarming supreme court scenario for democrats if donald trump were to win in november. we ll play for you that warning. that s another one, elizabeth. we ll get to that. so good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, may 22nd. we re in washington. the table is going what are we talking about today? with us we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, elizabeth b. miller and deputy managing editor for politics at politico, sam stein is with us. we ll start with donald trump s criminal trial where testimony in the former president s hush ....
and donald trump, apparently agreeing on something most ben calendar that neither biden shen and that s unprecedented in modern history. it all came together quite suddenly, i would say on wednesday morning following this challenge from biden and trump lost two debates to me in 20 $0.20 that he hadn t shown up for debate. now he s acting like he wants to debate me again. well, make my day pal. i ll even do it twice. so let s pick the dates i hear you re free on wednesdays oh, okay. the former president did not take long to rsvp. he hit back with this job posting. it s my great honor to accept the cnn debate against crooked joe biden, the worst president in the history of the united states and a true threat to democracy on june 27th likewise, i accept the abc debate against cricket job on september 10 thank you djt. it is rather interesting that the biden campaign insisted that one of the rules is going to be they will cut the microphone s to eliminate interruptions ....
jonathan haidt, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much, steve. it is a pleasure to have you here. now, of course, your home base is new york university, across the pond in the united states. right now, that university along with many others in the us is in ferment, with students occupying certain grounds within the university. mm hm. you ve written a lot over many years about the intellectual atmosphere on campus in america, so i want to begin by asking you what you make of these protests. so, of course, the right to protest, we re all in favour of. the key issue for me is intimidation. this is what began in 2015 a change in the nature of campus life, so that people who are making a political point are doing it not with persuasion but with intimidation. and i ve done a lot of writing about how it was the arrival of social media that allowed people to intimidate others, threaten any dissenters with mob reactions. so my previous book, the coddling of the american mi ....
who are making a political point are doing it not with persuasion but with intimidation. and i ve done a lot of writing about how it was the arrival of social media that allowed people to intimidate others, threaten any dissenters with mob reactions. so my previous book, the coddling of the american mind, was about this strange, new and really kind of frightening morality that came to us right around 2015 it wasn t there in 2013. and so i m starting this way because this is the backstory to what s happening today. yeah, but what you ve already said is important because you have made it clear in the past that you reject the notion that words can be seen as violence. mm hm. and you basically say that, intellectually speaking, we all need to have thicker skins. mm hm. we all need to understand that offence can happen, it can be taken, but it is not akin to violence. that s right. so when you use that word intimidation about a bunch of young people chanting slogans abou ....