is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay. now congress i didn t say over. go to the paragraph before. wow. how would you like to be ivanka stage managing that? back in july, the january 6th committee played raw footage of the outtakes of former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot when he was choking on every word. this morning, the day before he called them patriots, beautiful, this, that, the other. wow. this morning, the committee s full final report has finally been released. we re going to go through it all. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s friday, december 23rd. everybody s off. i m here. i hope you re not bothered too much by that. we re going to get through it together. we have former aide to george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. and the host of msnbc politics nation and president of the national action network, the hardest working m
Trial with wiz former fixer and Attorney Michael Cohen grilled by the former president s defense team about a phone call from eight years ago. Were going to bring you expert legal analysis on that testimony and what to expect next in the trial. Also ahead well explain why President Bidens interview with special counsel robert hur is back in the headlines months after the special counsel decide against seeking charges against the former president. And bring you the latest out of gaza amid growing dire humanitarian concerns. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, may 17th. We made it to friday. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we have a jampacked show this morning. And we will begin with Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial, which is nearing the finish line and could potentially wrap up as early as next week. The prosecutions star witness, Michael Cohen, is set to return to the stand on monday after trumps legal team tried yesterday to h
Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber. And Today Is The Day actress Stormy Daniels taking the stand against donald trump in the trial today. Shes the key witness. So prosecutors had an important goal here today, showing the jury that shes believable, that shes telling the truth, that the facts are on her side. And while defendant trump is not on trial for lying about the underlying encounter. That itself would not be a crime and is not charged, they want to use the d. A. , this testimony to show this was the first of many lies by trump, trump of which if prosecuted are crimes. This is her chance to be heard in a Legal Process that has spanned years and often said has involved many claims about her at the center of this scandal. Donald trumps personal attorney paid a porn star named Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged relationship with the republican candidate for president. The former president accused of paying 100,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels. Stormy daniels became a H
Welcome back to morning joe. look at the white house. day before christmas eve. 7:45 a.m. on the east coast and washington, d.c. and we re halfway through now a history making term for vice president kamala harris. in a new interview, the vice president talks about her first reaction to the supreme court overturning roe. the administration s plan for handling the southern border and her relationship with the president. let s bring in the author of that piece, special correspondent, at vanity fair, and host of the fast politics podcast, molly jonfast, thank you so much for being with us. you know, i always found with bob dole, there was this great disconnect between the public image of bob dole and the private guy that you talked to
Political text messages. in a groundbreaking interview that lisa page just did with molly jonfast at the daily beast page described viscerally what it was like to have her text messages discovered and investigated by the inspector general. she said, quote, at the end of the july in 2017 i was informed by the doj inspector general s office i was under investigation for political text messages. and honestly at the time i have no idea what they re talking about and initially they re very coy about it. they don t tell me umuch about it. what i do know is that my text messages will reveal is that i previously had an affair. i m overwhelmed by dread and embarrassment that the prospect of the inspector general investigators, andrew mccabe, my colleagues could now or learn about this deeply personal secret. as molly jon fast reports page was convinced that she followed all the rules. she is after all a lawyer and knows she is a restricted