day in the legal drama surrounding former president donald trump. today deadline for trump to secure a bond to pay the more than $450 million judgment in his new york civil fraud trial, as he appeals that ruling. and right now he is in a new york city courtroom for a hearing in his criminal hush money case where he is charged with falsifying business records to cover up a payment to adult film actress stormy daniels ahead of the 2016 election. the hearing focuses on why the prosecution turned over some evidence to the defense late. the judge could also set a new trial date. with us now to talk more about this msnbc national correspondent yasmin vossoughian outside the courthouse in lower manhattan, tristan snell, a former new york assistant attorney general who led the trump university investigation and david henderson a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. so yasmin, there s a lot going on in that courtroom today. what s the latest? reporter: yeah, there is. there
hundreds of palestinian prisoners in exchange for dozens of hostages. we ll also go through the republican-led chaos in the house after a far-right lawmaker laid the groundwork for possibly removing speaker mike johnson. and the former head of the rnc says she was just taking one for the team for not speaking out against donald trump s extreme comments tied to january 6th. that s not all. we ll be talking about her hiring here at nbc, as well, and msnbc. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, march 25th. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor, chuck rosenberg. and rogers chair in the american presidency at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham is with us this morning. we ll dive right in, beginning with a huge day legally for donald trump. he is expected to be in a new york courtroom this mor
yet again, the former presiden t unfair or corrupt system. what is interesting today to watch the judge, judge juan merchan, who ll be overseeing this case. he made it pretty clear that any sort of political stunts need to stop at the courtroom door because one of the reasons that we were in court today not to begin the trial, but to have a hearing as we just trump s lawyers had accused the district attorney s office of prosecutorial misconduct, something the judge said was extremely serious and significant, accusing them of withholding documents, working with federal investigators to withhold documents from the trump team? but under questioning from the judge, it was clear that trump team really didn t have anything to support that. and the judge was clearly angry. he raised his voice and said, i cannot believe that you don t have a single citation. no case law, no evidence to support this accusation. he was clearly a shot across the bow, a warning not to try to scor
judge overseeing his criminal hush money case. as a new york appeals court delivers the former president some much-needed relief on his civil fraud penalty. giving him ten days to post a greatly reduced bond figure of $175 million, not half a billion dollars. also this hour, the u.s instead of vetoing a hostage/cease-fire resolution in the u.n., they allow it to pass, as netanyahu canceled his advisors planned visit to the u.s. this week. and vladimir putin false claim, blaming ukraine for the horrific terror attack outside of moscow, killing at least 137 people. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. former president donald trump in new york city in the courtroom this hour in the criminal hush money case, just as an appeals court threw him a lifeline on the half a billion dollar bond he was supposed to pay today. moments ago, the new york appeals court slashing the amount trump needed to pay in his civil financial fraud case from $464 million with i
food security issues right now, this is a country that s threatening famine threatened with famine. if something isn t done aggressively. sean penn, thank you so much you bet. the news continues right here on cnn i d front next the breaking news, the judge rules against trump rejecting one of his key arguments in pushing think to get his classified documents case dismissed. and this comes as we are just learning that trump s first criminal trial in new york is now facing a delay plus mike rowe, the tv host known for taking on dirty jobs, put his next job, the rfk juniors running me. he s going to tell you about his very converse station with rfk junior on that topic next. and breaking news, new reporting tonight on who may be responsible for the vicious attack on alexey navalny s chief of staff the investigative reporter, christo grozev, who exposed the plot to kill navalny with novichok, joins me now with his new reporting. let s go out front and good evening