we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that you ve given us to serve your agenda. we are making tremendous progress i want to congratulate you on the men and women you ve placed around this table, the holistic team of working for america is making results in each and every area what does it say about someone who needs that so badly? you have to imagine president biden s first cabinet meeting today will look a little different from the previous administration s good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, april 1st. joe has the morning off, along with willie and me we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire and we are following a lot of stories this morning, including a number of developments with the dramatic third day of testimony in the trial of a former police officer who is accused of killing george floyd, as a juror becomes ill and a witness breaks down on the stand. some shipments of johnson & johnson s corona
tonight the devastating impacts from severe weather on the east coast now blamed for at least one death. a pair of tornados confirmed in the southeast. nationwide thousands without power, trees toppled, and flash floods coming down pretty heavy winds are gusting. even an avalanche warning. the region still under threat and the good news for the week ahead. americans evacuated from haiti. the country s spiraling out of control from gang violence as haiti s prime minister struggles to hold on to power. the unrest on the ground and the race to get those americans to safety. president biden s all-out push for the general election what his top allies are doing and how soon former president trump could clinch the nomination. the president s harshest words yet for israel s prime minister. hurting israel more than helping israel. the latest u.s. steps to get critical humanitarian aid to gaza. and nbc news exclusive. the u.s. military s new battlefront with russia an
atlanta with the new indictment against donald trump possibly coming out of georgia at any minute. is a the deadline approaches in the january 6th federal case against the former president. it could give us a signal of where exactly that case is headed. the foiled assassination attempt on ukraine s president. had, but we learned about the plot and the russian woman allegedly at the center of it all. the ntsb investigating after two firefighting helicopters collided in california, killing three people. what went wrong here? we re following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. it s legal deadline day here in d.c. former president trump s defense lawyers have a few more hours to respond to a special counsel filing. prosecutors asked the court to place restrictions on what trump can do with aunt say about certain evidence in the election interference case. trump s lawyer suppose it could have until 5:00 p.m. easte
escape. also breaking overnight, ohio voters delivering a major win for abortion rights in a special election. does it spell trouble for republicans in 2024? and lawyers for donald trump and the special counsel due back in court friday. their fight over what trump can and cannot talk about as the former president strikes a defiant tone on the trail. i will talk about it. i will. they re not taking away my first amendment right. good morning, it s great to have you with us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with a win for abortion rights advocates that could have major implications for 2024. voters in ohio overwhelmingly defeated a gop-backed ballot measure that would have made it all but impossible to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution come november. now, ohio was the seventh state to put abortion rights on the line. 14 months since the supreme court struck down roe v. wade and the seventh to back abortion rights. we
while we are at it now the welcome to the fall, the winter, the spring the 2024, all of them about accountability as well. there is a litigation there s civil trials, everywhere you look for donald trump there is a legal challenge. the latest calendar entry, may 20th 2024. that is the day judge aileen kevin just announced for the classified documents trial against trump. at least four other cases are scheduled to go to trial before the documents case. we want to give you a quick recap of what they are. they are the trump organization civil fraud trial. that s scheduled for october 2nd. the lawsuit brought by new york attorney general letitia james claiming trump committed fraud by inflating his net worth by billions of dollars. only to get richer. two months, later eugene carroll s a second civil defamation lawsuit will go to trial on january 5th 2024. that same month on january 29th, a trial is scheduled in a federal class action lawsuit against or accusing trump and his com