pardon happen. abbott blaming radical prosecutor jose garza funded by george soros in election 2 years ago. governor stating, texas has the strongest stand your ground law of self-defense that cannot be nullified by jury of progressive district attorney. sergeant perry claims he acted in self-defense when a mob of protestors surrounded car and one of them pointed gun at him. the texas lieutenant governor also weighing. he should never have been charged with murder. detective says there s evidence that would not have had him indicted and the detective argued over the da over this. when you have the justice system write down at da and court level something has well, that s the deal. cheryl: joey, the lead directive, he sign ad sworn affidavit and signed garza s office and the police in the area said not guilty. i don t know all the evidence but i can take a step back about stand your ground law in texas. i can tell that governor abbott is not using conjecture when he
know, we don t have any gun violence here. we re going to have to really be a family now, have counseling for kids it s going to take a while to recover from this. that s a high school football coach from dadeville, alabama, the latest american town rocked by a deadly mass shooting, this one at a 16-year-old s birthday party. we ll have the latest on the shooting and the reaction to more gun violence straight a ahead. plus, the legal fight over abortion medication will go before the supreme court we ll break down the new developments in the case. and also ahead, new reporting on the wealthy donors that are now backing away from ron desantis and why they re ditching the florida governor before he even gets in to the 2024 presidential race good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, april 17th i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin today with another american community in mourning following a deadly mass shooting four pe
much we ll talk to you again a little later on morning joe. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now another community is grieving this morning following another deadly mass shooting this time, it was at a birthday party in small town alabama. we ll have the latest in the investigation and the reaction to more gun violence in america. a daily occurrence almost. it comes as the nra held its annual convention this weekend in indianapolis, with donald trump as one of its top speakers we ll show you the mixed reception the crowd gave to a possible challenger to trump in the 2024 republican presidential race also ahead, new reporting on the wealthy donors who are now backing away from ron desantis why they are ditching the florida governor before he even launches a presidential came p campaign plus, the legal fight over abortion medication will go before the supreme court this week we ll break down
assures of safety measures are to donald trump claims the arrest is imminent, and call for protests standing by their, man house speaker kevin mccarthy leads the republicans rallying t trump s defense. , and the rates for 2020 for how a possible indictmen could hurt or help trump s bid to return to the white house the prosecutor in new yor has done more to help donald trump get elected presiden than any single person i america today. i am jonathan kaye, part an this is a special edition of the sunday show. welcome, katie phang is off this morning we began th special edition of the sunda show with the news that as bot the political and legal worl holding their breath yesterday, a trump blair in social post, that la enforcement agencies are essentially preparing to arres the former president justthi tuesday. , remember this part of trump legal woes stem from a 201 alleged hush money payment t adult film star. the manhattan da s offic declined to comment on wha trump said
just ahead, russia targets ukraine s power grid across several regions leaving the new care power plant completely off- line. we will have a report just ahead. the senate republican leaders hospitalized after a for wednesday night. we will break on the results of the justice department probe into the louisville police force. developing this hour, the u.s. senate republican leader is recovering in the hospital after a fall. his spokesperson says he tripped at a hotel in washington during a private dinner wednesday night. there is no word on his condition. he has fallen at least once before in his home in 2019 when he fractured his shoulder. the 81-year-old is the senate s longest serving republican leader. more on this story as it develops. we looking now at ukraine were a new wave of russian attacks have targeted energy facilities in at least seven regions. at least three people have been wounded in key and power has been knocked out to around 15 percent of the city a