Martha is next with the story. Martha nice bag pipes there. Thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. This is the story. Were waiting response this hour from d. A. Fani willis. We could hear from here any moment after judge mcafee left it up to her if she wants to continue with the trump Election Interference case. He says she will have to do it without her former boyfriend and colleague, nathan wade, who you see to the right of her in that picture. The judge said although she showed a tremendous lapse in judgment in hiring wade, he could not conclude that that had had a Material Conflict in the trump case. In the decision, he did go after her for her unprofessional manner when she stormed in to the atlanta courtroom in february after wade testified. This combative testimony. Watch. As you know, mr. Wade is a southern gentleman. Me not so much. Your honor no, no, no. This is the truth. I object to you getting records. Youve been intrusive in to peoples personal lives. You
that s why they re sending all these democrats in to run. it s crazy. it is not personal for me. i have no you know, people want me to hate trump or love trump. that s not what it is. i just tell it on policy. i m not going to talk about him personally. i don t care about that. i think politics is too personal, and i think that s why people are so frustrated right now. donald trump and nikki haley with different approaches about talking about the other. both are making their pitch to voters in new hampshire, while ron desantis has his sights on haley s home state. we ll have more from the campaign trail straight ahead. plus, the latest on the foreign aid package that republicans have tied to border security. we ll go through yesterday s meeting at the white house between president biden and speaker mike johnson. also ahead, another concerning escalation in the middle east as pakistan launches a retaliatory strike inside iran. good morning. welcome to morning joe.
i am part of the family. say jack announcing his retirement after 48 years i decided my 48th season will be my last. we begin this hour with a fox news alert. former president donald trump is set to plead not guilty today to 37 charges the city of miami ramping up as police brace for large protests, jonathan serrie outside the courthouse with the latest. jonna. yeah. good morning to you. president trump is scheduled to appear. scheduled to appear at 3:00 this afternoon. ahead of that the former president is expected to turn himself in voluntarilily to federal authorities. he will be digitally fingerprinted. in other words, no ink. he will be photographed; however, the photograph will not be released to the public. and at no point will he have to wear handcuffs. now, as he atwhats process. as he arrived yesterday, his motorcade was greeted by a handful of protesters mixed in with a group of supporters. one of those supporters flew all the way from california to be here
picked special master. this is really a put up or shut up moment for team trump. judge raymond dearie ordering the trump team to back up his out of court claims that the fbi somehow planted evidence during their search of mar-a-lago. back it up or put up or shut up as they say. the search that turned up more than 100 classified documents. the judge wants it to give him a sworn declaration with a list of specific items they claim were planted. that s the thing. this is about facts. it s about evidence. you can t just make wild accusations in court without a shred of evidence even if that is your main m.o. out in the court of maga opinion. the judge also considering testimony from, quote, witnesses with knowledge of the relevant facts and let s not forget the former president would have you believe he could declassify documents just by thinking about it, which is not a thing. senate republicans not buying that either. up here we take it very seriously. people can get hurt. pe
abortion. no, no, no, one performed on a story by the media see what i did there? i tricked you twice. it seems every day we find more proof of how corrupt the press is in killing off a living, breathing story out of convenience. it was a group effort, strangling a breakthrough expose that would have changed the landscape of an election. the press come along with dems, facebook, and twitter, took the laptop story to their own version of planned parenthood and suffocated it with a high-tech blanket. the latest bombshell, remember how joe biden claims he never spoke to hunter about his dealings with the chinese? true, they talk mostly about crack cocaine on their 15 hour flight. [laughter] on air force to go. now we know that story is as full as joe s teeth. he knew what hunter was up to, trying to make it rain with multimillion dollar chinese companies vehicle after seeing the new york times piece about chinese corruption online, joe called hunter and told him it was all c