Up, ted cruz is On Fox Defending Trump by saying the opposite. Theres no person on planet earth that believes donald trump has been sell celebate all of his life. Thats not news. We have a lot on Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial. What a week it has been. Stormy daniels wrapping up testimony with a contentious and bizarre crossexamination from trumps legal term. Well get expert legal analysis on that and what we can expect in court today because its not over yet. Plus, we have reaction from capitol hill to President Bidens threat to withhold some Weapons Shipments to israel over its possible invasion of rafah. More republicans are krilt criticizing the president and hes facing backlash from democrats. And Kevin Mccarthy is having a hard time coping with the fact that mike johnson did something he could not. Well show you mccarthys dig at his successor. It seems, i dont know, not okay, will legal, good morning, and welcome to morning joe. Its friday, may 10th. With us we have the
you re live in the cnn newsroom. thanks for staying with me. i m ana cabrera in new york. the vaccines are giving americans hope. and we need it. the optimistic news. round three of covid-19 relief is rolling out to millions of americans. it s $1400 per person. many of the cash payments are expected to hit bank accounts this weekend. covid vaccinations more than 101 million doses given to people around the country, according to the cdc, and about a third of the people are now fully vaccinated. public health officials are concerned when they see scenes like this. people packed together. almost almost nobody with a mask. and it is spring break for people and many are traveling, despite advice against it. this is the packed beach, this is miami beach right now. they are begging people to keep wearing masks and keep following safety guidelines. we have a team of recorders spread out. let s begin with cnn s natasha chen. she is in miami beach and people are starting 20 to flock fo
oversight function and the doj for the criminal component as to interfering potentially with an election or providing false documents, a kin to fraud to government officials. ryan, this is beyond a harebrained scheme. they did this. they sent it to the national archives. ryan, do you have any reporting or sense of how was this supposed to work? did they think they were going to trick the vice president? they did think they were going to trick congress that didn t know what this what the real names of the slate of electors were? we don t have all of the details yet, alisyn. but when you start to piece together the bits of evidence and information that we are gathering gathering as a rilt of this, there was some in the trump orbit about believed that if mike pence had this slate of electors at his disposal, that he somehow had the authority under the constitution to get
dana: startling development from the national institute of health to the house oversight committee. the top agency official says the united states helped fund research on bats infected with coronaviruss at a lab in wuhan, china. some critics say it amounts to gain-of-function research. let s check in with jonathan serrie live in atlanta. the national institutes of health has ordered one of its grant recipients called ecohealth alliance to submit any unpublished data from experiments the organization helped fund at a laboratory in wuhan, china. lab mice modified to mimic the human immune system became sicker when exposed to a certain virus found in bats than they did when exposed to other bat viruses. the niv says it was an unexpected rilt of the research as opposed to something the researchers set out to do and it was not gain-of-function
plus, 0% interest for 36 months. ends monday. it s important that we try to get out the afghans who have helped us and who have been vetted. we ve all witnessed these poor, desperate afghans clinging to the sides of airplanes hoping to get out. it is very important that we are showing hospitality to those that have been so helpful to our service members. all right, so those were republican senators a rilt over a month ago. they led the charge in criticizing president biden for