it is 10:00 a.m. in new york i m lindsey riser and this morning huge new questions swirls as the historic case against president trump launches into a new phase the prosecutor alleging new information at the center of the charges. he s not saying what that information is, something trump s legal team is already pouncing on. i mean, where are the underlying charges the indictment actually did not list what these underlying charges are. trump overnight lashing out at both the judge and district attorney, despite warnings from the judge to avoid dangerous rhetoric did his comments last night cross the line, and what does all this mean for his presidential campaign? breaking news out of missouri, multiple people are dead after a suspected tornado strike in the southeastern part of the state, the search for survivors. a double barrel seismic shift in politics, progressives in chicago and wisconsin scoring massive electoral victories, first by electing former teacher br
we ll read from that new piece. so much different legal angles are percolating with the jan. 6 and other issues with the election. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 8th. with us, the host of way too early and politico s jonathan lemire. associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and we begin with the breaking news. former japanese prime minister shinzo abe is dead after being shot twice this morning. officials is say abe was campaigning for a candidate ahead of japan s upcoming house of counselors elections, where he was shot from behind, once in the back and the other in the neck, with what appeared to be a homemade gun. this happened in the city of nara, about 20 miles southeast of osaka. the chaos from the shooting and the subsequent takedown of the man police say carried out the attack was all caught on camera. and we warn you, some of this video may be incredibly disturbing. [ speaking foreign language ] abe was immediately
any indication from his inner circle about how he s feeling about all of this when the cameras aren t on? reporter: i think it s important to note when we re talking about his inner circle, here, lindsey, is the small group of folks that do surround him very intimately now are folks who understand that there is no managing donald trump. we watched him operate in the white house, and for now donald trump is going to take that microphone at his free will. he is going to post on his social media account at his free will he took on the district attorney head on last night, he took on the judge, judge merchan who is overseeing this case in new york last night of course there is the threat that the judge could try to place a prodder protective order or a gag order even on the former president despite suggesting that he has yet to even consider it and that the prosecutors have yet to request it, but for donald trump, i think it s worth noting it was on march 25th about ten days ago in which
president met with reporter: hey, lindsey. this is being seen as a contentions moment, so much so words matter for example, this is not being called a visit it s being called a stopover as tsai transits from central america, her trip there back to taiwan she s expected to meet with u.s. house speaker kevin mccarthy as well as a bipartisan delegation of u.s. lawmakers. take a listen to what speaker mccarthy had to say about this expected meeting yesterday look, i m going to sit down with the president of taiwan it s very important country we have to build together, our relationship and make stronger as we go through they believe in freedom and we re doing it at the reagan library, so symbolism there with how freedom and working together the world becomes a safer place. reporter: tsai had another transit stop or made another
violation. but this is uncharted territory. can a state prosecutor piggy back on a federal law like that? we don t know, and that s part of the danger of this case also, it could be a violation of new york election laws, lindsey said, but that s a state law and can it apply to a federal race or would federal law preempt th state law, we don t know that yet, and then there s the tax fraud potential. here s the problem there, michael cohen was given more money than he laid out to pay the taxes, so is the state of new york out any money we don t know, unless the trump organization claimed a tax deduction improperly so there are a lot of questions out there. now, the facts, i think, are pretty damning against trump in that indictment that came out burk but the question is whether this case will make to a jury can i jump in for one second? you know, dave was talking about these three crimes