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morning joe starts right now. and good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is tuesday april 2nd. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the expanded gag order in donald trump s jonathan, just have a seat may as well put my lipstick on. someone is passing notes. just getting set from the show. i had to mov from over here to over there. i had to put stuff down. right behind willie. sorry. have a seat. are you ready for us to begin the class? yes, let s do it. i know it s your first day. queue it up her name is mika. welcome everyone to morning joe. that s a beautiful shot. if we still even have you. thank you for joining us. i think it s tuesday, everybody is in their seats and we ll get to all that s going on this morning. the expanded gag order in donald trump s hush money case comes as the former president came up with the cash needed to appeal for his civil fraud judgment. we ll talk about that. on wall street, truth ....
house floor opening, with now a fourth republican nominee for speaker. this time it is congressman mike johnson of louisiana. and he says he has the votes to win. overseas, we re following breaking developments out of israel. the u.n. warning it may be forced to stop operating in gaza today as fuel runs out. some world leaders intensifying their calls for a cease-fire. plus, forecasters warn of a, quote, nightmare scenario after a cat 5 hurricane slams into mexico s southern pacific coast overnight, near the popular resort city of acapulco. it went from a tropical storm to a cat 5 in just 12 hours. we begin this hour on capitol hill, where next hour lawmakers are expected to vote once again for a speaker of the house. louisiana congressman mike johnson is now the fourth gop pick in three weeks. the second in just one day. after tom emmer dropped out yesterday when it became clear he could not secure enough votes. a visual reminder of how congress found themselves ....
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 ....
deal. this is former trump lawyer jenna ellis in court this hour. is it your decision to waive these rights and enter a guilty plea because you are in fact guilty? it is. so she is the fourth co-defendant and the third in just a week to take a plea deal. joining us is nbc news laura jarrett and katie phang by phone. laura, this just happened moments ago. what more do you have on it? unexpected. another significant plea deal. we see in court, jenna ellis, getting emotional, apologizing to the people of georgia, telling the judge she was led by others down this wrong path and saying she regretted her representation of the former president and all of the things that she did, along with others including rudy giuliani, which she is now pleading guilty to essentially making false statements in front of the georgia senate, around december of 2020, she goes forward, you might remember, one of those infamous press conferences, they were standing before the georgia senat ....
mark, you can t possibly think we re going to pull this off. that call was crazy. he looked at me and started shaking his head, no, cass. he knows it s over. he knows he lost. but we re going to keep trying. there are good options out there still. we re going to keep trying. cassidy hutchinson talking about mark meadows and tonight, there is blockbuster new reporting that meadows has been granted immunity to testify under oath about trump s efforts to overturn the election. also tonight, a tearful jenna ellis apologizes for her role in the georgia election interference rico crimes. agreeing to tell prosecutors and a jury all that she knows about the trump gang s illegal activities. plus, a third republican speaker designate down the drain today and a search for the fourth which is not a joke anymore. it s a disgrace. we begin tonight with breaking news. a potentially explosive development in jack smith s federal case against donald trump and his attempt to overt ....