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Cnn, my acosta, and washington and we do start with Breaking News. The worlds number one golfer, Scottie Scheffler, arrested this morning and charged with a felony, louisville, Kentucky Police released a mug shot just a short time ago, showing scheffler wearing an Orange Jumpsuit after being arrested this morning on the way to the Pga Championship, espn is reporting that scheffler tried to maneuver around a fatal crash scene by driving on a median near the entrance to the Valhalla Golf Club. Please told him to stop at scheffler continued to drive toward the golf plug you now faces four charges, including a felony count of seconddegree assault on a Police Officer. He has since been released and has arrived at the Pga Championship. I want to bring in Criminal Defense Attorney and cnn legal analyst joey jackson. Joey, pretty shocking developments. This boarding. And we just got this statement and then from scheffler, just a few moments ago, it says, this week, put it up on screening. We h
While his own lawyer roasts him. Look, i get the defenses argument that you cant trust Michael Cohen because he hates donald trump, but, to be fair, everyone who has ever worked with donald trump hates donald trump. At some point, you have to be like, i think its trump. We also learned what the defense ordered for lunch today. 14 pizzas, four cheese, five pepperoni, four sausage and pepperoni, and one chicken, bacon, and ranch. No word yet on what trumps lawyers ordered. Boom, boom. Okay. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, it is, today, officially, i have triple sourced this, friday. She did. Yes. We did it. Friday, may 17th, everybody. We made it. Welcome to morning joe. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. And Associate Editor, the great euGene Robinson. Jonathan lemire going to hang his American Flag upside down because the red sox lost last night. I did text that to you last night. It wa
His wife killed someone with her car and the damage to the car was enough that she wanted another car. And so the story of that bribe car in the indictment has just become very very dark. We will get to that later in this hour tonight. But it is mentioned in the indictment that there was a car accident but it doesnt say in the indictment that she actually killed someone. We have now learned all of that just today. That story, the more we learn about it the more we hear the details, it gets more depressing and distressing. I cant imagine that it gets worse from here. This is bad is any such story has been. Well get to that later in the hour. It is a gruesome chapter. In their life. I will be watching, lawrence. Thank you, alex. Thank you. Today the day after a judge issued a gag order directly to donald trump, who was sitting right in front of the judge, in a new york courtroom, donald trump decided to leave that courtroom and leave town. Thats how well that gag order worked. New York S