Not so fun. Hours from now, former President Trump will be sitting in a manhattan courtroom as his Hush Money Trial is set to resume. This as the judge overseeing the case has yet to rule if trump violated his gag order. In washington, d. C. , the Supreme Court will hear Oral Arguments over trumps claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution in the d. C. Election interference case. Plus, arizonas Attorney General has charged mark meadows, rudy giuliani, and other key trump allies, as well as 11 socalled Fake Electors with state crimes after they attempted to keep trump in power following the 2020 election. I dont know. Did you see that coming . I did not. I didnt see that coming. I really didnt. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, did you see that coming . Not this one. I mean, we suspected it was coming sometime, but didnt see it coming yesterday. And some boldfaced names apparently among the group of aides to donald trump. Giuliani, meadows, eastman. Yeah. Apparently a
the senate is coming in and out of session over the course of the next few weeks specifically to prevent the president from making a recess appointment that would allow had to immake changes at the justice department to get rid of mueller. republicans are backing off from the idea they re the ones that are directing that, saying democrats are the ones, that s kind of true, but the reality is republicans started this tradition of doing things this way. they set a schedule very early on in the year of republicans who are going to be coming in and doing these sessions, so i think that they are putting a pretty firm line in the sand here on mueller. i think so. so many things, so many parts of our system have actually worked out well. i was talking to mika yesterday, telegramming her, because that s the only way she gets communications in the south of france, and we were talking about how the system has worked. it s incredible how the checks and balances directly and indirectly have just
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