morning joe starts right now trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the united states came down yesterday when a new york city grand jury convened by the manhattan district attorney s office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge donald trump. because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they center around that $130,000 payment trump allegedly made to porn star stormy daniels just days before the 2016 election, to keep her silent about an affair she claims the two had a decade earlier according to the star witness in the case, trump s own former lawyer, michael cohen, the trump organization tried to cover up the payment, falsely claiming it was a legal expense. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, march 31st along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too ea early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire the host of politics nation, presid
You so much for joining me today. Anna very busy saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, the cnn newsroom with alex marquardt, starts right now you are in. The cnn newsroom. Im alex barack board in washington. Thank you so much for joining us. We begin with Breaking News on capitol hill after months of delays and political turmoil in a rare saturday vote, house lawmakers passed stay billion package of aid for ukraine, for israel and taiwan now the deal heads to the senate for a vote before it can be signed by President Joe Biden two reporters across washington as well as in kyiv and in jerusalem. Lets start with cnns Lauren Fox On Capitol Hill to help break it all down. Lauren, what is the latest yeah obviously this vote a long time coming. Alex and theres been a lot of questions about whether or not Speaker Mike Johnson was ever going to get to this point, putting this ukraine aid package as well as additional aid for israel and taiwan on the floor of the House Of Representatives. And the r
day weekend right now, more than 100 million people are at risk of severe weather as deadly and destructive storms. sweep across the central us these new threats come just hours after powerful storms killed at least 13 people across the south overnight, at least four of those killed were children homes were obliterated. 18 wheelers flipped over and power lines knocked out coming back to visualization right now for the first time, knowing that i was just here and it s all destroyed. it it s mind-blowing. i m still trying to process it. it s shock this everything you had worked so hard for all these years is don cnn s ed. lavandera is in valley view, texas and meteorologist, at elisa rafah is tracking the storms from the weather center. so ed, let s begin with you. i mean, bad. i mean terrible damage behind you. how are people doing? trying to capture the magnitude of the devastation that we re finding here invalid the texas, which is just north of the dallas, fort worth
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his post, he was so upset. well, i don t know that has anything to do with emotions that s just sort of par for the course, isn t it yeah, that post you just referenced, joe, was 48 hours ago. now, last night, we re back to being a third-world country. he is a little all over the place with his view of the grand jury jonathan is right, there is, of course, it goes without saying, fundraising happening on donald trump s behalf he is selling t-shirts already get yours by midnight. i stand with donald trump to fight this indictment. as you would expect, as well, most republicans are publicly supporting donald trump, many leaning into that familiar word, weaponization. house speaker mccarthy writes, alvin bragg, quote, has irreparably damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in the election bragg weaponized our sacred system of justice. steve scalise had the same message, calling the indictment,