Good morning. Its 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Testimony under way for day 12 of former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial. The jury hearing from former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey Mcconney who played a role in reimbursing Michael Cohen for the payment he made to Stormy Daniels. Just before testimony resumed, the judge fined trump another 1,000 for violating the partial gag order imposed on him. Thats in addition to the 9,000 he was fined last week for previous violations. The judge also warned trump directly, future violations could see him sent to jail, saying, quote, it appears that 1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent. With us now to talk more about this msnbc National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. Michael zeldan, special counsel to robert mueller, hes a professor at American University and David Aaronberg state attorney for california. Yasmin, its been an intense day in the
greg: yeah, all right, let s welcome tonight s guests. he looks like a car salesman and smells like an air freshener, cohost of fox and friends first, todd piro. don t let the accent fool you she s here to school you, cohost of the bottom line on fox business, dagen mcdowell! [cheers and applause] greg: he knows eight ways to kill a man with a paper clip, nine if it s rusty. former cia operative and host of the president s daily brief podcast, mike baker! [cheers and applause] greg: and if walls could talk, her office would be in witness protection. new york times best selling author and fox news contributor kat timpf! [cheers and applause] greg: all right. well, that s about it for me. before we get to some new stories, let s do this. greg s leftovers. greg: yeah. it s leftovers where i read the jokes we didn t use this week and as always it s my first time reading them. so if we suck we ll staple joe machi to a wall and use his head as a dart board. earlier
[cheers and applause] greg: yeah, all right, let s welcome tonight s guests. he looks like a car salesman and smells like an air freshener, cohost of fox and friends first, todd piro. don t let the accent fool you she s here to school you, cohost of the bottom line on fox business, dagen mcdowell! [cheers and applause] greg: he knows eight ways to kill a man with a paper clip, nine if it s rusty. former cia operative and host of the president s daily brief podcast, mike baker! [cheers and applause] greg: and if walls could talk, her office would be in witness protection. new york times best selling author and fox news contributor kat timpf! [cheers and applause] greg: all right. well, that s about it for me. before we get to some new stories, let s do this. greg s leftovers. greg: yeah. it s leftovers where i read the jokes we didn t use this week and as always it s my first time reading them. so if we suck we ll staple joe machi to a wall and use his head as
jesse: kamala harris answers a question nobody asked. when i die i don t want friends to be the first thing that s mentioned. jesse: an american icon, drowned in a jacuzzi, what happened? you re a good guy, i voted for you. this is important. you need to leave. jesse: don t you dare talk to john fetterman. plus. foul. jesse: one of america s favorite actors died over the weekend, matthew perry who played chandler bing who played in friends, under water in his hot top in his la home saturday afternoon. we don t know the cause of death. authorities have done an autopsy but haven t released anything. but they ruled out foul play. we re still waiting for the toxicology. police found some prescription pills in his house and the cause of death is listed as deferred. i grew up watching friends almost every thursday night on nbc. and the chandler character was the funniest. you know, i don t dance at weddings. why not. weddings are a great place to meet women.
That we need to have more simpler taxes and i think there is some groundwork laid for that that could be productive. when you look at this particular plan, there are some things that have very hard going. and hard going not just with democrats, obviously, democrats have been pretty much a posed to what president trump has proposed generally, but among republicans who are concerned about the deficit. for one thing, this is unless you really believe in dynamic scoring, this is a tax plan that looks like it would increase the deficit and have trouble meeting the standard of revenue neutrality that you need to use reconciliation as your device to get it passed. senate, 51 votes. charles. the most important element of this is the stripping away of deductions. in 1986, that was the great triumph of the tax reform, stripped away all these loopholes and pay backs, cutouts. essentially a form of corruption.