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you re not saying this purse. no. i m not saying this. y t bill barr. he said it would be a nightmare. a horror show. a nightmare. yeah. i m sure he s going to be gh campaigning for president biden tor stop this. to try to avoid a horror show. who once chaos in the white house? oh bill barr now says he plans to vote for donald trump in november. do these guys know anyhow, in a foxnews anyhow yesterday bill barr was asked about this year s general election choices. here s what he had to say. i ve given two choices. i think it s my duty to pick the person i think we do the least harm to mike country. in my mind i will support the republican ticket but i think the real danger of the country, the real danger to democracy is i say, the progressive agenda. and well trump, i said trump may be playing russian us roulette, but continuation of the biden administration is s national suicide, in my opinion. that is just such a lion he . knows it s a lie. this is, ....
essentially outed by the media. juror four let go after seemingly lying to the judge. so now we re down to five. where does this go from here? plus, the family feud unfolding today with very high stakes, influencing the outcome of the presidential election. what 15 members of the kennedy clan are now saying about rfk junior s white house bid and why they re endorsing president biden instead of their own flesh and blood. and the nasty split between speaker mike johnson and house conservatives is somehow getting worse with personal insults and more threats to remove him from his post over foreign aid. we ll take you to capitol hill in just a minute. but we start with donald trump s hush money trial where the proceedings are unfolding more like a tv legal drama than your run-of-the-mill jury selection. two of the jurors who had already been selected for the trial are now out. juror number two, a female nurse, said she was worried she couldn t stay anonymous or stay fai ....
here, you know, particularly if he is in jail, would affect, you know, the logistics of how he is dealt with going forward. it could also affect a jail sentence if he is already convicted of a crime in this case. i d be interested in the conversations with his lawyers around his testimony, even though he wants to. legal analyst kristy greenberg, that s a question for another time. thank you for joining us. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday. i ll see you on morning joe in a few moments, and morning joe starts right now. momentum is building to oust johnson from his house speaker speakership, but he went on fox business over the weekend to remind republicans he has the backing of the party s dear leader. i spent hours with the president on friday. he s 100% with me. well, that settles it. trump is 100% with him. isn t that right, sir? are you going to protect speaker johnson? well, we ll see what happens with that. that ....
first? that s tonight on news night good evening. i m abby phillip and washington tonight. a special news night interview with speaker emerita nancy pelosi. we have a lot to ask about and we ll get to that in just minutes. but first, the staring contest between the republican speaker of the house and the republicans who don t think that he should have a job on cnn tonight, johnson defended his decision to put forward a massive foreign aid package. the pair s billions for israel with billions for ukraine and billions for taiwan. now that earned him praise from the democratic president and scorn from the republicans. that is a good recipe for dysfunction here in washington and for setting a timer on how long johnson can keep the gavel. tonight johnson wants to turn the debate over what to spend into a debate over who s shadow looms larger over today s gop is it ronald reagan s or donald trump s i m a child of the 80s regard myself as a reagan republican. i understan ....
i m going to allow an opportunity for every single member of the house to vote their conscience and will on this. i m willing to take personal risk for that because we have to do the right thing and history will judge us. i do not spend time walking around thinking about the motion to vacate. i have a job to do here and i m going to do the job. regardless of personal consequences, that s what we re supposed to do. speaker mike johnson pushing forward with a series of aid bills despite push back in his party. the question is how much will he need to lean on democrats to get that funding passed? plus the senate dismisses articles of impeachment against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. and what to expect today when jury selection picks up again in former president trump s hush money trial. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, april 18th. i m ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. and we begin this morning on capitol hill where ho ....