unrest if former president donald trump is indicted. according to an internal memo shared with cnn, all nypd officers are expected to be in uniform and ready to deploy. these are images you re seeing now out of new york today. so far small gatherings of pro-trump and anti-trump demonstrators. and then in florida protesters are outside of trump s home in mar-a-lago. the district attorney in manhattan has given no timeline on when trump could be charged for his alleged role in hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. the former president has claimed that he could be arrested today and has called on his supporters to protest. cnn s kara scannell is following all of this. kara, what more do we know about these preparations for what s really an unprecedented moment in u.s. history? a former president criminally charged. reporter: yeah, brianna, it is an unprecedented time. right now we ve just we re seeing a small build-up of police presence but it s really very
While his own lawyer roasts him. Look, i get the defenses argument that you cant 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 its 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 trumps 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 last night. I did text that to you last night. It wa
he s also he s on the heels of this success bringing iran and saudi arabia together diplomatically, and he s bringing a 12-point peace plan. and you read through that peace plan you say, well, on the surface a lot of that makes sense but then as you go through it you realize it really has some real issues and it s directed very controversially toward nato and the united states participations. china views all of their relationships through a transactional lens. and also china doesn t have allies and it doesn t have friends. it has clients. it has vassals. and this truly is a vassal-like relationship that s being directed here. and as the ambassador indicated, the relationship that china has, economic relationship that china has with europe is hugely important. china cannot afford to risk that. so neither one of you very clearly thinks much of this sort of peace framework that china is proposing here.