noem is not backing down, defending her decision to shoot her own dog. now implying president joe biden s dog, commander, which no longer lifts in the white house after several biting incidents, should be put down. she reportedly writes the first thing she d do if she got to the white house is make sure joe biden s dog was nowhere on the grounds. commander, say hello to cricket. dear lord, this woman has a taste for dog blood. it s like she thought all dogs go to heaven was a personal challenge. good morning. welcome to morning joe. she can t seem to kick it. she dries to blame it on us, but she wrote it, willie. it is tuesday, may 7th. we have a lot to get to this morning. we ll go through yesterday s key moments in donald trump s criminal trial, including the judge s warning about potential jail time for the former president. also ahead, georgia s former lieutenant governor, a lifelong republican, says he will vote for president biden. we ll read from his op-ed, cal
good morning and welcome to the final day of the third week of donald trump s criminal hush money trial, where the former president just reentered the courthouse here in manhattan. were you all again go before the prosecution as they are going to bring a witness back on the stand, a witness that we saw yesterday? should i stillman that older testimony when court ended, soon again, trump will be part of that captive audience that is going to be listening to the prosecution s version of a trump tale, a sexual when counter with the adult film star that the former president allegedly tried to keep hidden. from american voters. yesterday for the first time, the jury actually got two hear trump s boys and that s secretly recorded audio tape. good morning. i m kaitlan collins here in new york thank caitlin. i m john mccarthy austin here in washington. and you are watching cnn special coverage of donald trump s hush money cover up, trial in minutes from now, testimony, resumes
be back on the stand and we have the dramatic highlights from keith davidson s testimony so far. plus, breaking news and traumatic images on the campus of ucla as police move in to disband a protest encampment. we ll take you there live. it is 10:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. let s get right to that breaking news at a courthouse in manhattan, donald trump s hush money trial resuming just minutes ago and up first this morning, a hearing on four new alleged gag order violations by the former president, and soon we re expecting keith davidson, former lawyer for stormy daniels and karen mcdougal to return to the stand. our yasmin vossoughian is outside the courthouse and here with me, msnbc s katie phang, criminal defense attorney and former manhattan prosecutor jeremy salan and former assistant attorney general for new york, tristan snell, the author of the book taking down trump. yasmin, what s happening so far with this gag order hearing? reporter:
about so where does it all go from here? plus, did trump cross the line, judge juan merchan may once again punish the former president for violating his gag order, what the prosecution is asking for as they try to get trump to stop. on the surface, it may seem that trump s trial and the escalating violence and chaos on college campuses have nothing to do with each other, but one of trump s former aides says it may, in fact, be part of a perfect political storm that is helping trump, boosting his election odds even as he sits quietly in court. but we start right here in new york city where a lunch break just began after a pretty wild morning at trump s trial. it s the former president accused of a crime, but today s proceedings have been focused squarely on his former fixer, michael cohen, his credibility, his likability and the lengths he went to to protect his boss as election day 2016 approached. cohen hasn t even taken the stand, but his name has already come up more t
admitting that these facts were so inextricably intertwined in a colloquy with justice barrett, that it would be very difficult to separate them out on remand. that s how i interpreted his statements. please to translate that for people watching, that means that basically, if it wasn t official act, they would not be able to use that potentially at trial. he was arguing they should be able to use it to paint a bigger picture. but trump has argued, total immunity. he has not said, well, some of these are private x. this would mean the case could at least in part go forward and go to trial, we believe that without the official acts charged in the indictment, there is no case. we ve been very consistent in our position from the start, starting with the district court proceeding through the circuit. now at the us supreme court, that what we re talking about is absolute immunity. yes. but absolute immunity just for a president s official acts in office. i think that s a cruc