first, the mar-a-lago classified document investigation. our reporting is that special counsel, jack smith, is going to be home stretch on that. then there s the hush money payments to stormy daniels. that case is set to begin in march of next year, right in the middle of primary season. then there s the georgia investigation into efforts by then president trump to overturn the 2020 election. but even with all of this, the deck is stacked in donald trump s favor for the gop primary. john avlon is here to explain. governor ron desantis plans to seize the gop spotlight tomorrow with a big announcement, it involves elon musk. kara swisher is gonna join our panel to share her thoughts. when is enough fame and money and success enough. lebron james playing the will he or won t he retire game. we ll see what happens going forward. i don t know. i don t know. i ve a lot to think about, to be honest. a lot to be thinking about, to be honest. just for me, personally, going forward w
Was also the current president ial nominee facing trial for one of his crimes. He is accused of falsifying Business Records to cover up a payment made to an Adult Film Actress he is alleged to have an affair. To prevent her from going public with the damaging story. Prosecutors allege that his actions were in service of voters in the final days of the campaign. The former president was named as an unindicted coconspirator in two cases related to a multistate effort to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election. 200 miles away another one of his lawyers was arguing before the justices that the former president should be immune from criminal prosecution for anything he did while in office. Trumps attorney was forced to concede that in the teams view, immunity is so great that the president could get away with staging a Military Coup or ordering the assassination of a political opponent. If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person, and he orders the military o
good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a really busy week. let s get to some of the conversations you may have missed. gag order in donald trump s hush money case is an effect, but his attorney said, they will keep fighting to get it thrown out. that comes after new york s top court declined to hear trump s appeal of the matter earlier this week. the state court appealed trump s thing, there was no constitutional grounds for the appeal. that leaves the gag order imposed by judge juan mershon in place meaning, he could still face penalties in place for violating it. the order bars trump from going after witnesses, jurors, and others who were involved in the case. following his felony conviction last month, the sentencing is scheduled for july 11th. so, i guess first of all, do you expect this gag order to be put back before the sentencing? i don t, but maybe there is reason for it. and then, what do you expect for the sentencing?
trying to appease other people. they tried to present it as him being, you know, a bold leader on this issue. i think in reality he knows that he s losing and donald trump is setting the tone on this issue, and i don t see that changing any time soon. we ll certainly watch the fallout in the weeks and months ahead. msnbc political analyst brendan buck, thank you as always. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this wednesday morning. morning joe starts right now. right now millions of americans are getting blasted by a heat wave. when you show the weather app it shows the middle finger emoji. so hat in maine the lobsters will be getting in pots just to cool down. [ applause ] it s so hot in new york this week the rats are wearing crop tops. [ laughter ] it is so hot in south dakota, kristi noem s dog good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s a very going to be a very hot wednesday, june 19th. jooernt. we ll bring in the former communications
sunset monday to mark the massacre. he and vice president harris will be in atlanta tomorrow to meet with leaders of the city s asian-american community. earlier today atlanta police insisted the investigation is far from over. we are not done. we re still working very diligently to ascertain all of the facts so we can have a successful prosecution. the investigation into a possible hate crime, is that still on the table? nothing is off the table for our investigation. is there any indication the suspect visited those spas previously? it appears he may have frequented those locations, yes. all we do know is he purchased the gun on the day of the incident. on that same line the fbi is assisting local law enforcement with the investigation. this was interesting. tonight the fbi director chris wray told npr, quote, it does not appear that the motive was racially motivated. the suspect who s charged with eight counts of murder waived an arraignment scheduled for today