everyone trusts the plan, like dr. grouchy. i think that s a bit overly optimistic. and the demon state governors. folks, that would kill people. it would absolutely kill people. and now for a counterpoint. you know what, staying at home leads to death also. yes, like if you re accidentally drink bleach. luckily trump can circumvent these nay sayers with something called twitter. sleek new gizmo to spread twitter bugs to all his supporters who eat them right up. fire grouchy. fire grouchy. look at these smiling faces. thank you, president trump. and your amazing metric system. this has been this week in covid history. [ cheers and applause ]. wow. never forget. never forget. weirdly funny but also painful because they re not old movie clips and made up little shows. that all happened in the last administration. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, april 14th. along with willie and me, we have the host of msnbc s politic s nation and p
difficult for lgbtq+ people just to live. and yet, here we are. seeing the right of our community members diminish. their voices are silenced, they re very identities denied. our nation has made great strides with filling the fundamental promises of freedom and equality for lgbtq plus americans, but lately something has changed. the arc of progress is bending in ways we did not think possible just five years ago. unjust ways. so far this year, more than 520 anti lgbtq bills have been introduced in state legislatures. that is a record. more than 220 of those bills, specifically, targeted transgender and non-binary people. also a record. and an unprecedented 70 anti lgbtq laws have been enacted just this year. in the past, we have put together pride specials celebrating lgbtq+ individuals and their achievements, first in the white house and then on the stage and screen. achievements that deserve to be celebrated. but tonight, as that progress is threatened like never before, we
just to live. and yet, here we are. seeing the right of our community members diminish. their voices are silenced, they re very identities denied. our nation has made great strides with filling the fundamental promises of freedom and equality for lgbtq plus americans, but lately something has changed. the arc of progress is bending in ways we did not think possible just five years ago. unjust ways. so far this year, more than 520 anti lgbtq bills have been introduced in state legislatures. that is a record. more than 220 of those bills, specifically, targeted transgender and non-binary people. also a record. and an unprecedented 70 anti lgbtq laws have been enacted just this year. in the past, we have put together pride specials celebrating lgbtq+ individuals and their achievements, first in the white house and then on the stage and screen. achievements that deserve to be celebrated. but tonight, as that progress is threatened like never before, we are going to do something d
report. thank you so much for being with us this afternoon, jessica. thanks for having me sitting in the chair, come back tomorrow. you do the same but don t go anywhere because the leader, jake tapper starts right now cnn breaking news welcome to the lean. i m jake tapper and we were falling breaking news out of new york. of course, we re day and donald trump s hush money trial. the defense rested right now in court, there s a meeting to determine what the judge will tell the jury next week before the jury begins debilitating the deliberating. what will no doubt be a monumental verdict one way or the other in the very first ever criminal trial of a former president trump himself is at this court meeting. and we ll bring it you all the updates coming up, but leading this, our israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu joins us live from jerusalem a day after the historic decision by the international criminal court in the hague to seek arrest warrants, not only for the three t
Couples to be recognized, that same season we saw that same court takeaway section five of the voting rights act. so what we know is that progress is not a straight line and if we do not fight and defended, our opponents oil constantly chip away at it. it also teaches us that they are coming for all of us in a deeply coordinated way, so we cannot go off and fight to our own individual battles, we cannot fight battles to protect holman s right to choose, fight battles for voting rights and affirmative action, fight battles over here for lgbt equality because their infrastructure is aligned and coordinated and they are going to come after each and every one of us. just when we thought that our rights were secured in the lgbtq space, they are following the same exact playbook that has taken on voting rights and so many other things. so this is why we have to be vigilant and not think that these victories are solid without the investment in