in tonight s guests. emily austin. he s as delicious as the egg dish, jim florday. she s a real catch according to interpol, fox news contributor kat timpf. okay, before we get to some new stories. let s do this. greg s left overs. yum. yes, it s left overs i read the jokes that we didn t use this week. and just like greg, my first time reading these. this week rapper emimue sent a letter to ramaswamy lose yourself, not to call slim shady. while on tour in montgomery, alabama kat was approached by a lesbian that gave her, her phone number. kat declined and instead invited her to the show tonight. that was a greg joke. that was greg s i think. and i m so happy right now. last weekend climate change blocked bernie man fans from the grounds and largest gathering this side of vermont primaries. turkish airline is offering customers to sit in a kid free section, the good news is that the new children section will allow smoking. you got a good view there. and speciality sea
arraignment. trump s lawyers also asked the court to officially separate his trial from several of his codefendants in that case, who had requested his trials beast beta. the trump legal team offered a familiar argument about not having enough time to prepare for a trial in the near future. today, we also got our first look at the full transcript of the former trump chief of staff, mark meadows. after he took the stand for nearly [interpreter] four hours earlier this week. that transcript included meadows explanation for one of the most curious and overtly political incidents in the whole georgia saga. after the 2020 election, meadows made a surprise trip to a civic center in cobb county, georgia, where the states ballot auditing process was taking place. now, no one has really been able to explain what meadows was doing there that day. but during his cross examination on the stand mark meadows told the court that he showed up to that ballot counting facility uninvited. he sa
we ll have more on his medical situation. also ahead, we ll look at the biden administration s plan to close a major loophole for gun sales. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, september 1st. i m willie geist. with us this morning, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former communications director to president obama, jennifer palmieri. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post , eugene robinson. politico s sam stein. and former district attorney for the direct of colombia, glenn kirschner. he is a legal analyst. let s dive right in. president trump has officially pled not guilty in the fulton county election interference case. the team entered the plea for the 13 felony charges he faces, including racketeering and conspiracy. it was entered in writing, as they told the court he wouldn t appear for next week s scheduled arraignment. the legal team also pushing to sep
day in a good way. like, i didn t know i had muscles here, what is that? have a great weekend and we ll see you next week. thank you, allie. good evening. i m ali velshi in for ari melber. thanks for joining us for the two-hour edition of the beat. the cases targeting trump are accelerating as prosecutors prepare to put actual evidence in front of actual juries. we re watching for developments in the georgia case specifically over when, how, and where this case is going to be tried. trump codefendant and former chief of staff mark meadows is awaiting a judge s decision on his bid to move his case or his part of it, because he s one of the 19 codefendants, to federal court. meadows claims the actions for which he was charged, setting up calls, reaching out to state officials as trump contested the 2020 election, were just part of his white house job. fani willis flatly rejects that, arguing even one official act shouldn t be enough to move meadows case, and helping over
joining us tonight. we have new developments in the georgia case involving donald trump s alleged efforts to overturn the election. today, as chris was talking, about the former trump lawyer, sydney powell, asked the court to separate her case from the 19 other defendants in the trial. their lawyers claim that sydney powell, quote, has no substantive connection with any other defendant regarding the charges in the indictment, and quote. therefore, should be tried alone. that is to put it mildly, a difficult case to make. powell, seen here standing alongside rudy giuliani in front of a campaign sign for the codefendant, on all trump, has many substantive connections to the other defendants. she attended a meeting with several other defendants at the white house where they discussed ways to overturn the election. at that meeting, they considered making sydney powell a special counsel so that she could investigate the election. but now her lawyers say that she doesn t really kno