Who will reportedly be the first witness called by the prosecution . Lets talk about the trial this weekend. All weekend long. Twitter was going wild. Also ahead, it appears ukraine will finally get the critical funding it needs after the house passed a package of foreign aid bills which includes more Military Support for israel, as well. The bill now heads to the Senate Despite efforts by Marjorie Taylor greene, who got called out, yes, by the new york post. Kind of sums it up. It does. Good morning. It is monday, april 22nd. Welcome back the morning joe. Former aide to the Bush State Department and white house, elise jordan. From the american presidency at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham. And financial editor at the financial times, ed luce is with us. Well get to the lead story in one moment, which are Opening Statements in Donald Trumps hush money trial. First, jon meacham, i dont want to ever be melodramatic on things like this, but that saturday vote was one that wil
Confronting internal revolt over the House Health Care bill and his unsubstantiated claim that president Obama Wiretapped phones at trump tower. A lot of americans need to know. Reporter amid this turmoil, fbi director james comey could confirm today whether the bureau is investigating ties between Trumps Campaign and russia. Leaders of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee also Hopeful Comey will also respond to their request to provide evidence regarding the wiretapping acquisition. Theyre about to screw up big time if they keep running to the Intel Committee and not answer that letter. Reporter earlier this week sean spicer qualified trumps accusation, but now hes sounding defiant. He feels very confident it will ultimately come of this, it will vindicate him. Reporter lawmakers on both sides of the aisle showing growing frustration about the white houses failure to provide any evidence to support trumps extraordinary claim. I think, frankly, the
administration should come forward with wh
Have the stomach for another challenge to the speakership. All that being said, as republicans go back to work this monday, whats the atmosphere there, and whats the future of Speaker Johnson . Look, i think they might not have the stomach for it, but they might get it nonetheless. We, thankfully if youre mike johnson, have a week of a cooling off period right now. Although they were in on saturday, theyve now got a week of recess. The fact that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene did not privilege her motion, effectively make this a more urgent crisis upon their return in a week, thats probably good news for the speakers office. But there is a reality here where, in my conversations with republican members, they are very frustrated at the fact that this is once again a looming threat to their majority. They dont know who could possibly take the position of this speaker. I candidly dont know why anyone would want the job, especially not at this point. The reality for mike johnson, i
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time for the bottom line. president trump s tax returns have come to light this morning kind of, like two pages from 2005. they don t answer a lot of questions, but with so many pressing issues facing the white house right now like health care, like the russia cloud, is this all just a distraction. let s get to cnn political analyst mark preston. still a lot of talk about where sthe these tax returns, two page, came from. the journalist who received them, david k. johnson earlier this morning, i ask could this have come from the president. he said, yeah, it could have. what s your bottom line. what do you take away from what we ve learned or haven t learned. one, 12 years ago, they don t tell us anything. it s two pages. it tells us how much he made and how much he paid in taxes.